Volume XXII - Monroe County Library System

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Serials Collection 

THE HOSPITAL REVIEW. 

DEVOTED TO THE 

INTERESTS OF THE SICK AND SUFFERING. 

AT THE 

BOOHESTEB CITY HOSPITAL. 

"l WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME." 

VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 15, 1885. No. 1. 

The Child's Prayer. 

[ At the recent annual meeting of the American 

Baptist Home Mission Society in New 

York, Mrs. J. S. Dickerson, of Chicago, referred 

to the following prayer of her little daughter, 

to illustrate the necessity of individual 

effort in the, mission work.J 

Sweet Gracie, the light of the household, 

Hath knelt in the twilight hour, 

Commending the friends that she loveth 

To the Father's keeping power, 

Not one of her pets is forgotten, 

Her kitten, her dog and doll. 

But deeper in meaning the favor 

She asks while the shadows fall: 

Now the old black cat, wilt Thou bless her, 

The cat with the g^reat green eyes. 

That wanders alone in our garden,— 

I'm sad when I hear her cries." 

The mother looked down on her darling, 

The child of her tender cafe, 

And told her she need not remember 

All cats in her evening prayer. 

The bright face grew earnest and thoughtful, 

And clouded in strange surprise, 

But the light of a child's true instinct 

Flashed out .from the sparkling eyes. 

And straightway she questioned her mother, 

" Well, now, will you please to say, 

If I did not think of the black cat, 

Who else for its good would pray ?" 

Ah, Gracie had mastered the lesson 

We tardily come to heed ; 

But always there wait for our footsteps 

Earth's lowliest ones in need. 

" Who else " if we turn from their pleading, 

Will unto their rescue spring ? 

" Who else " to the feet of the Master 

These sheaves for the harvest bring ? 

There are sorrowing hearts to cherish, 

"Who else" will the tear-drops dry ? 

" Who else " will be friends to the friendless 

While the fleeting years go by ? 

At last when our service is ended 

How sweet will His greeting be. 

" Inasmuch as for these ye labored 

Ye have done it unto me." 

ANNA SARGENT HUNT.



ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 15, 1885. 

NEW CHILDREN'S PAVILION. 

Laying the Corner Stone. 

It was a lively sight that greeted us on 

the afternoon of July 31st, as we entered 

the Hospital grounds from West avenue. 

The lawn was dotted with groups of people 

that had gathered to witness the exercises 

connected with the laying of the 

corner stone of the Children's Pavilion. 

Prominent among these were the little 

folks who have taken so deep an interest in 

raising funds for this charity. Babies in 

arms, babies in carriages, and children of 

all sizes were present. 

Beneath a tent, kindly loaned by Mr. 

James Field, Julia Robinson and Edith 

Peck, who have worked so effectively for 

the Children's Pavilion, were busy with 

their assistants, Alice Peck, Bessie Backus, 

and Philip Mumford, and Charlie Robinson, 

their cashier, in making arrangements 

for the sale of ice cream and cake, and as 

the result of their efforts they brought into 

the treasury thirty-two dollars and ten 

cents. Another group was composed of the 

Hospital boys,conspicuous among whom was 

Max Kraus in his rolling ehair, with his 

head in a leather harness. Gust Grunst 

had lost a leg; Sidney Greenslave had a 

stiff neck ; Freddy Lyons 1 hips were diseased 

; Tommy Jones had a broken arm ; 

Tommy Heeney was suffering from abscesses 

; Terrance Martin had his ankle 

injured by a boy coasting down hill, and 

Lawrence Barrows, six years old, the 

youngest of the Hospital boys, had broken 

his knee. Here was a band of little ones, 

candidates for the Children's Pavilion. 

Hospital patients in their rolling chairs, 

others with their crutches beside them, or 

in use, were interested spectators, and from 

the windows of the west wing of the Hos- 


pital, many who could not leave the 

wards eagerly watched all that was passing 

before them. 

The foundations of the new Pavilion 

have been laid northwest of the west wing 

of the City Hospital. The new structure 

is to be of brick, eighty feet long by thirtytwo 

wide, two stories and a half high, with 

a fine dormer roof. It will have accommodation 

in the wards for forty-eight patients, 

besides private rooms for twelve or fifteen 

others. The designs were gratuitously 

drawn by Mr. John R. Church, the architect, 

and Mr. W. H. Gorsline has contracted 

to build the Pavilion for $12,000. 

Money contributed by the children and 

other funds that the managers are allowed 

to appropriate, amount to $7,000, and the 

necessity for the erection of the building is 

so urgent that we trust ere long the remaining 

$5,000 will be raised for its completion. 

The speaker's platform on the north portion 

of the new foundation was protected 

by a canvas awning, and beneath this were 

seated representatives of the Board of 

Lady Managers, the Trustees, the Surgical 

and Medical staff, and also the Mayor, Dr. 

M. B. Anderson and the city clergymen, 

who were to take part in the exercises connected 

with the laying of the corner stone. 

Beneath the corner stone was a box of 

sheet lead twelve inches long, seven wide, 

and five deep, in which were enclosed 

copies of the Union and Advertiser, the 

Democrat and Chronicle, the Morning Herald, 

the Post Express, Volksblatt, Abend- 

Post and Beobachter, Sonntag's Journal, 

of this city, the New York Tribune, and 

THE HOSPITAL REVIEW of June, 1876; 

Feb., April, and Sept., 1877 ; Feb, 1878; 

Feb., 1879 ; Feb., 1880 ; March, June and 

Sept., 1881 ; Jan., June and Oct., 1882 ; 

March, 1883 ; Dec, 1884, and all the issues 

of 1885 ; also a history of the Hospital 

prepared in 1872, a Hospital Supplement 

issued in 1883, and a book containing in 

manuscript the names and donations of


children to the Pavilion Fund, the names 

of the Lady Managers, Trustees, Medical 

and Surgical staff and other officers of the 

Gty Hospital, also a list of the endowed 

beds. 

At 4 o'clock the exercises were opened 

by an appropriate prayer by Rev. Dr. H. C. 

Riggs. The following address was from 

Mayor Parsons, who presided on the occasion 

" We meet to-day upon historic ground. 

Ground made sacred, because in former 

days after life's battle was o'er, many of 

those who were early settlers here, who, so 

to speak, rocked the cradle of the beautiful 

city of which we now have a right to 

boast, found a resting place within this enclosure, 

beneath this sod. The strides of 

time, and the march of progress have 

everywhere been felt, and long ago, comparatively 

speaking, the 'Western Cemetery 

' was abandoned, and the bones of 

those who had so tenderly been laid away, 

were as tenderly removed to beautiful 

Mount Hope, and in their place has been 

reared this noble Christian charity, the 

Rochester City Hospital. Strange as it 

may seem, there are those among us, who 

believe that this is an institution supported 

entirely by a tax upon the people. And a 

like error prevails regarding St. Mary's 

Hospital, an institution in which we also 

feel a commendable pride. As one who 

knows something of the facts, I am unwilling 

that this error should go longer uncorrected, 

and I embrace this most interesting 

occasion to set right the misapprehension. 

To be sure, no tax unless it be of a local 

character is levied against either of these 

institutions. And why should there be ? 

And it is a facf that the city pays annually 

a few thousand dollars for the support of 

those who are friendless and penniless inmates 

within their walls. The amount so 

far as this hospital is concerned, is now 

averaging about ten dollars per day, and to 

this extent it is a tax upon the city. But 

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the error unjust, unnecessary, and as widespread 

as it has been, is unworthy of further 

consideration and my thoughts turn to 

the noble men and women who contribute 

of their means and of their time to the 

welfare of their fellow creatures. They 

are entitled to our thanks. Like David of 

old ihey are serving their generation, and 

like the sun, they are diffusing warmth, and 

cheer, and life all the day long. As a citizen, 

and as an official, I am pleased to 

meet with the friends of the Rochester 

City Hospital to-day. I have nothing but 

good words for its management, and expressions 

of gratitude to those who have 

made it what it is, and what in my opinion 

it will ever prove to be—one of the most 

noble and deserving of the many Christian 

charities of our city." 

Mayor Parsons was followed by President 

Anderson, of the Rochester University, 

who expressed his interest in this 

charity, and stated that it was deepened by 

the fact that for several years of his life his 

attention had been specially directed to the 

care of the helpless and unfortunate. He 

alluded to comparatively recent improvements 

in the methods of treating the insane, 

idiots, deaf mutes, and the blind. 

He spoke of the former wretched condition 

of pauper children, crowded and 

neglected in the county poor houses, and 

of the strong efforts that wei^ necessary 

before public authorities would place them 

in institutions designed to elevate and improve 

them. He enlarged on the benefits 

that would result from the establishment of 

a children's hospital, where malformed, 

diseased and crippled children, by receiving 

timely surgical and medical treatment, 

and careful nursing, might become useful 

and self-supporting citizens, who otherwise 

would be burdens to themselves, their families, 

or the community at large. He concluded 

by expressing his desire that the 

fondest hopes of the managers would be 

realized in the completion of the building


so nobly commenced. We regret we have 

not a full report of Dr. Anderson's interesting 

remarks. 

The next speaker was Rev. Dr. Anstice, , 

who said : " It is a precept of holy religion 

to rejoice with those who rejoice, and 

we now rejoice with all here that they can 

look upon the realization of a long-looked 

for event. We could rejoice much more 

if they had not to make bricks with so inadequate 

a supply of straw. As yet it is a 

venture of faith, though it is not a groundless 

faith, for it is one which reaches down 

and twines around the interest and sympathy 

of the children. I have great faith 

in the children, and I know the undertaking 

will succeed. I rejoice in this for two 

reasons : First, because the children now 

growing up will take great interest in what 

they have labored for, and second, they 

will receive by what they have done a 

blessed education in the very first principles 

of practical Christianity—doing good 

to others. What we all need is to rid ourselves 

of that demon, selfishness, and have 

more feeling for the sufferings of others. 

All success, therefore, to the efforts of the 

children, and may the Children's Pavilion 

^(all paid for) soon be an accomplished 

fact." 

The following is the address of Rev. N. 

M. Mann 

" There^re two classes of people I have 

envied, doctors and nurses ; people who, 

while we who talk are merely sentimentalizing 

on the miseries of mankind,take hold and 

do away with them. I have never seen a 

doctor soothing a sick person without 

thinking, here is one doing the work of life, 

not merely professing to do it. I would 

have been glad indeed to have been left off 

the programme and to have had my place 

represented by one of the medical profession, 

who might speak of what has been 

done, especially for children. I only know 

that in the course of the last few centuries, 

through the efforts of the medical profes- 


sion, the "average age of mankind has been 

raised to a high point, between thirty and 

forty years. Those able to judge think 

that in a savage life people live on an average 

only about five years. This is accounted 

for by the fact that many die in babyhood. 

It is thought from statistics that in early 

civilized times the average time of life in 

Europe was about twelve years. It is 

now thirty-six years. This result has been 

reached by the skill of physicians and 

nurses. Some years ago I had the honor 

of taking incipient steps in the formation 

of a society in this city for the prevention 

of cruelty to children which is now merged 

in the Humane Society, I'remember in 

the early years of the society's existence, 

we were embarassed by the want of a 

proper place to send children who were in a 

state of disease through the ill treatment 

of parents or guardians. The-Children's 

Pavilion will answer this purpose admirably. 

I thank God for the provision now 

about to be made. The doors of this institution 

are open to the rich and the poor, 

to Jew and Christian, to all classes regardless 

of faith or want of faith. I trust no 

lack of funds will prevent the advancement 

of this undertaking." 

The last address was made by Rev. 

Myron Adams. He said : " In anticipation 

of saying a word this afternoon I endeavored 

to get a litttle information as to 

how and when hospitals began to exist. If 

anyone has endeavored to learn this from 

common sources he has found them very 

meager. Hospitals are said to have existed 

under the Buddhists and during the early 

part of the Christian era ; but altogether 

little is known of them. I shut up the 

books and there came into my mind something 

pertinent to all kinds of hospital work. 

You all know the story. A man who was 

traveling between Jerusalem and Jericho, 

met with an accident. Certain men 

came along, one of whom had sympathy 

•with hospitals. The first of these gentle


men said, as he passed the man who had 

met with the accident : ' This is none of 

my business. A second gentleman made 

the same remark, while a third who was 

neither a Jew nor a Christian, nor a heathen, 

said : ' I have some business here. Then 

he put the man in his ambulance, a onehorse 

ambulance with no body to the carriage, 

and took the man to the nearest inn ; 

and he was something of a doctor 

too, he " poured in oil and wine," good 

things when properly used. Then he told 

the inn-keeper, when he left his charge, to 

take care of and nurse, and give medical 

attendance to the man. and he would be 

paid for it. That is the first hospital of 

which I find any authentic record. One of 

the most important things developed in a 

community is the hospital fever—that is, 

an interest in hospital work. There is 

often a little division in regard to charities 

and objects of charity. There is a little 

division among those on this platform, just 

as was the case with those who fell in with 

the man who met with the accident; but if 

we have any manhood and womanhood we 

are not divided on hospital work. We are 

sometimes troubled with cases which appeal 

to us, and which belong only to our 

particular sect. Here is something, however, 

which appeals to everyone who has 

any charity in his soul. They who are 

sick are the ones who make this appeal. In 

providing not only a Children's Pavilion 

but an entire hospital, there ought to be 

more and more developed an interest in 

hospital enterprises. Good Samaritans 

should be raised up everywhere. In common 

with those whe preceded me and left 

me nothing to say, I wish you God speed." 

The corner stone was then placed in position, 

and Mrs. M. M. Mathews and Mrs. 

Wm. H. Perkins, members of the Board of 

Lady Managers of the City Hospital, by 

their typical acts, the former striking the 

stone twice with a trowel, and the latter 

thrice with a mason's stone hammer, indi- 


cated their hearty participation in the work 

of the afternoon. At the close of the exercises, 

ice cream and cake, provided by 

Julia Robinson and Edith Peck, were dispensed 

for the benefit of the Children's 

Pavilion Fund, and enough remained to 

furnish a treat for the Hospital patients 

and nurses. 

The Hospital Inmates. 

After the close of the exercises connected 

with the laying of the corner stone 

of the Children's Pavilion, we visited the 

Hospital and found eighteen patients in the 

Male Surgical Ward, five of whom where 

confined to their cots. One of them had a 

leg badlv burnt by the explosion of a lantern, 

while on his way to the barn ; another 

had bruised his arm, being thrown while 

wrestling with another man ; a third, had 

burnt his foot with steam, while discharging 

his duties as engineer ; a fourth, had 

injured his back by falling twenty feet, the 

ladder on which he was standing suddenly 

breaking; a fifth had broken his leg by 

jumping off a railroad train. A new 

patient had been ordered to keep his bed, 

he had a bad knee that had been out of 

joint six weeks. The Hebrew man with an 

abscess on the hip had died. The Pavilions 

were empty. Six of the inmates of this 

ward were seated at a table in the ward 

eating supper. Five of the boys of whom 

we speak elsewhere had cots in this ward 

but were out on the lawn. 

Eighteen were under treatment in the 

Male Medical Ward. The aged man with 

ossification of the cartileges of the throat 

had died, as had one with Bright's disease. 

The excema patient was improving ; three 

men were suffering from rheumatism, a 

French Canadian had it in his feet, and another 

man had it in feet and knees ; one 

patient was very sick with pleura-pneumonia. 

The aged man with asthma and 

diseased heart was more feebie.


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Two persons died in July in the Female 

Medical Ward ; one of them was a German 

woman who had a diseased liver, the 

other was an elderly woman afflicted with 

rheumatism and other complaints. There 

were thirteen under treatment; one who 

had had peritonitis was still very sick. 

One person had injured the coating of her 

throat and stomach by swallowing washing 

fluid, and for six weeks she had been unable 

to take any solid food. One young 

girl had a diseased heart. The young woman 

injured by the falling of a building 

had so far recovered as to be up and 

dressed, but she feared her sight had been 

injured and had some symptoms of returning 

paralysis. 

In the Lying-in-Ward were three mothers, 

three babies, and three waiting patients. 

The Lower Female Ward numbered 

twenty patients. The woman with cancer 

had died, and the colored paralytic patient 

was very feeble, evidently failing. Tilly 

had had some of the diseased flesh removed 

from her arm. The poor girl has been suffering 

for two years and four months, and 

for the first time in five months she was up 

and had watched with interest from the 

window the exercises of the afternoon. 

The Little Folks. 

As we entered the Hospital grounds we 

found most of the boys gathered on the 

Hospital lawn all ready to witness the laying 

of the corner stone of the Children's 

Pavilion, of course they wanted to see this. 

Max Kraus, the German boy, nine years 

old, injured his back by falling over a stone ; 

a lump appeared and there was a curvature 

of the spine, and his lower limbs were paralyzed. 

He wears a plaster of Paris jacket, 

has a sort of leather harness to support his 

head, sits in a rolling chair and under Hospital 

treatment is regaining the use of his 

limbs and improving otherwise. He is 

always bright and cheerful. Gust Grunst 

is thirteen years old. He fell off a car 

and injured his leg so that it had to be cut 

off below the knee. He is doing well. 

Sidney Greenslave, fifteen years old, about 

a. month ago took cold and has a stiff neck. 

Freddy Lyons, two years old, has diseased 

hip joints. Tommy Jones, ten years old, 

fell off a tree and broke his arm and was 

wearing a sling to support it. Tommy 

Heeney was born ten years ago in the Hospital, 

he has been suffering from abscesses. 

Terrance Martin, a little fellow, had his 

ankle injured by a boy who was coasting 

down hill ; a surgical operation has helped 

Terrance and he now goes about without 

crutches. Lawrence Barrows, the youngest 

of our Hospital boys, six years old, has 

broken his leg at the knee ; he has been 

with us about three weeks. 

Rosa, our little German girl, was on the 

Hospital lawn, but Katie H., the girl with 

burnt limbs, has been confined to her bed, 

but she was dressed and watched the exercises 

of the afternoon from the Ward window. 

Poor Katie H. has to exercise a 

good deal of patience, as the sore on her 

burnt leg has been increasing in size, and 

the physician has ordered her to stay in 

bed for the present. Recently she has 

taken ether and had three pieces of flesh 

taken from her hip and grafted on to her 

leg, and the Doctor thinks the operation 

will be successful, but it is too soon yet to 

be quite sure of this. Minnie Bryant, who 

has a diseased heart, is better than she was 

a month ago and when we saw her she was in 

her rocking chair. These are the classes of 

children who will find a home in our new 

Children's Pavilion. We know all our little 

helpers will watch its growth with increasing 

interest. 

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Fruit and vegetables are always acceptable 

at the "Hospital. 

Remember the fancy table for the Children's 

Pavilion Fund on next Donation Day, 

and during the summer vacation make 

something pretty for it.


The Friends of the Hospital. 

This is the season of the year when 

many of the prominent Hospital workers 

are resting from their labors, and we missed 

many of them at the time of the laying of 

the corner stone of the Children's Pavilion, 

who would have been deeply interested in 

the exercises. Some of these were prostrated 

by sickness, and others had invalids 

in their households. Dr. Wm. S. Ely had just 

started to take passage in a steamer to visit 

Europe, Mrs. M. Strong was recruiting at 

the sea shore, Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins was the 

only one of the original Board of Lady 

Managers who was present. One of the 

new members of the Board, Miss Anna E. 

M. Wild, was anxiously watching at the 

bedside of an aged aunt, Mrs. Joseph Medbery, 

who has since died. 

Coiitributions to the Children's Pavilion 

Fund. 

We find this month a long list of contributors 

to the Pavilion Fund. We love 

to think of all the children that gave the 

pennies that made up the dollar sent by 

Miss Anderson's Sunday School class. How 

interesting it would be if we knew where 

and how all the little folks raised the brick 

money. Some of them we know earned it, 

for they told us so. A package of money 

for twenty-two bricks comes to us from our 

little neighbors at the lakeside, and we have 

had more promised us. Six of these contributors 

come from one household. We 

see among the larger offerings several familiar 

names and some new ones. We seem 

to have friends far away, as well as near by 

us, who have responded to our appeal, and 

their names have been placed in the corner 

itone of the new Children's Pavilion, and 

we hope many of them will grow up to be 

hospital workers, to take the places of 

those who, in a few years, must lay down 

their work. 

A thanksgiving offering for " little Sallie's 


recovery," comes to us from her sisters and 

brother. This is the season of the year 

when a great many hearts are anxious for 

sick infants, and we hope next month we 

may have other thanksgiving offerings. 

The largest contribution is from Edith 

Peck and Julia Robinson, our indefatigable 

workers, who raised $32.10 by the sale 

of ice cream in their tent at the laying of 

the corner stone. 

Another offering comes to us of "four 

bricks, in memory of little- Richard of 

Annandale." You, children, will want to 

know who little Richard was, and so we 

vnust tell you of him, and I am sure you 

will be glad to know there are some bricks 

in the Children's Pavilion in memory of 

such a good, patient, little fellow. Richard 

Bulger lived and died at Annandale, in 

Dutchess county, on the east bank of the 

Hudson, opposite the Catskill mountains. 

For two or three years he was very feeble, 

and, early in May last, the Good Shepherd 

took him to that blessed fold where there is 

no pain, nor sickness, nor sorrow. Richard 

was not like other boys ; he could not 

frolic, jump and run with his comrades, because 

he had a disease of the heart that 

made him very quiet and feeble, and if he 

had played like other children he very 

likely would have died suddenly, in the 

midst of his • sports. He bore his weakness 

without a word of complaint or fretfulness 

; sometimes he would be missing 

and his friends would find him sitting in a 

•quiet corner by himself, sometimes Peri, the 

pet dog, would be with him, but not a 

murmur ever escaped him ; he was suffering 

and quiet to the end. He had a taste 

for mechanics, and made little' boxes very 

neatly, but he was not strong enough to 

do hard work. When you are sick, dear 

children, you feel there is no one to nurse 

and comfort you like father or mother, but 

little Richard was an orphan ; he had 

neither father nor mother, and there was 

no Orphan Asylum nor Industrial School,



nor Hospital near Richard, but a kind lady 

pitied the poor little orphan boy and welcomed 

him to her home at Annandale, and 

said to her physician : " You must put 

little Richard in my bill and take good 

care of him." An uncle and brother of 

Richard were employed by this lady, and 

all her servants were very fond of him, so 

for the last year of his life he found a 

pleasant home at Annandale, and every 

thing was done to make him comfortable 

and happy. Some children when they are 

sick find fault with their food and are not 

willing to eat what is best for them, and so 

make it very hard to take care of them, but 

little Richard was always satisfied with what 

was given him, and those who were with 

him the last year of his life recall his quiet, 

patient, uncomplaining spirit, and sweet 

memories cluster round the gentle little 

sufferer. At last he became so feeble he 

could not go up and down stairs without 

getting out of breath, so a little cot was 

placed for him in the basement, in a room 

adjoining the servants' hall, and there, 

when he was tired he would rest by day, 

and at njght his uncle slept beside him. 

The kind lady, the good physician and the 

faithful nursing could not save the life of 

little Richard. Day by day he grew paler 

and more feeble, and at last the little sufferer 

was at rest, but his name will long be 

a household word at Annandale, and we are 

glad somebody has sent " bricks in memory 

of little Richard of Annandale." Are 

there not friends, who, next month will 

send us memorial offerings for other little 

ones, who have left vacant chairs and pleasant 

memories behind them ? 

More Gifts to the Pavilion Fund. 

Since the reports for this fund were in 

type, two more donations have come to us, 

through our young friend Julia Robinson ; 

the one, of five dollars, from her grandmother, 

Mrs. A. H. Porter, of Niagara Falls, 

for her grand-daughters, the Porter, Osborne 

and Robinson children, for bricks for the 

Pavilion fund ; the other, of one" dollar, 

from Julia's little cousin, Ruth Osborne, of 

Auburn, N. Y. Ruth is only eight years 

old, and when she learned from THE HOSPI- 

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for the Pavilion, she was inspired to earn 

something herself for it, and so she helped 

the gardener, and had a sensitive " tooth 

filled, and thus earned the dollar she sent 

us. We hope some other children will next 

month imitate Ruth's good example. 

Children's Pavilion Fund. 

Penny collection by Miss Anderson's 

class in St. Luke's Church Sunday 

School $ 1 00 

Julia Robinson, two bricks 50 

" Four bricks in memory of little Richard 

of Annandale " 1 00 

" A brick for the Children's Pavilion " 25 

Clara Landsberg, two bricks 50 

Emil Landsberg, two bricks 50 

Laura Grant, four bricks 1 00 

" A package of Pavilion bricks from 

the children at the lake side"'— 

Bessie S. Backus and Maggie Lee 

Ashley, each one which they 

earned 50 

Two from Elsie Clough Street 50 

Two in memory of Willie Colvin Brewster 

50 

Two from Rachael Alice Brewster.... 50 

Two from Editha Brewster 50 

One from Maud I. Watkins 25 

One from Emma M. Watkins 25 

One from Pettes Louise Moore 25 

One from Fred. Pettes Moore, Jr.. .. 25 

One from Lucy Prescott Moore 25 

One from Jeannette Moore 25 

One from Clara Durand Moore 25 

One from Wee Pet Moore 25 

Four from Mary H. Wanzer 1 00 

"Ritchie Gorsline and William Henry 

Gorsline, Jr 5 00 

Caroline Stoddard 5 00 

E. Vine Stoddard, Jr 5 00 

Miss E. Z. Field, Albion 2 00 

Esther Chapin, one brick 25 

Nanie Brinkerhoff, New York, one 

brick 25 

Major Briekerhoff ,new York,one brick 25 

Maude Brinkerhoff, New York, one 

brick 25 

Fannie Converse Gould, Brooklyn 1 00 

Maud Ellen Hayes, Orange, N. J., one 

brick 25 

Suzette Ingersoll Hayes, Orange, N. 

J., one orick 25 

Roaa Landsberg, two bricks 50


Grace Landsberg, one brick 25 

Bessie S. Backus, six bricks 1 50 

Thank offering for little Sallie's recovery, 

from her sisters and brother.. 5 00 

Ice cream tent at the laying of the 

corner stone, by Edith Peck and 

Julia Robinson 32 10 

Bishop McQuaid 10 00 

Dr. Tryon Edwards, Governeur, N. Y. 5 00 

Receipts for the month $ 84 10 

Previously acknowledged 1,143 29 

Total peceipts $1,227 39 

Contributions to this fund are urgently 

solicited, and should be sent to Mrs. Robert 

Mathews, 96 Spring street, the Treasurer of 

the Fund, or to any of the Lady Managers of 

the Hospital. 

Additional Annual Subscriptions to 

the City Hospital. 

The following sums are most gratefully acknowledged 

: 

Fred. Cook ...» 5 00 

J. Fahy 5 00 

Oaks & Stern 5 00 

L. Sunderlin & Co 5 00 

Mrs. J. Averell 5 00 

Mrs. D. W. Powers 5 00 

Mrs. I. Bell 5 00 

Mrs. C. C. Morse 5 00 

Mrs. J. H. Hill 5 00 

Mrs. O'Hare 5 00 

Mrs. George Archer 5 00 

Scrantom, Wetmore & Co 5 00 

W. H. Glenny & Co 5 00 

R. A.Sibley 5 00 

William Eastwood 5 00 

Mrs. Chas. FitzSimons 5 00 

J.S.Roberts 5 00 

Carroll, Southard & Co 5 00 

Mrs. Hiram Sibley 10 00 

Donation, Miss Weltha Hill 1 00 

By Mrs. D. Andrews. $ 101 00 

Mrs. S. J. Macy 5 00 

By Mrs. John Brewster. 

W. F. Cogswell 5 00* 

By Mrs. Beach. 

Judge Danforth 5 00 

Mrs. W. S. Oliver 5 00 

Mrs. Alfred Wright 5 00 

Mrs. D. W. Wright 5 00 

Miss E. Gardiner 5 00 

Mrs. Huntington 5 00 

By Mrs. Mary Huntington. $ 30 00 

Mrs. H. S. Mackie 5 00 

Miss H. H, Backus 5 00 

Miss Johnson 5 00 

By Mrs. Clarke Johnston. 15 00 


Mr. M. Filon, 5 00 

B. Herman 5 00 

Henry Michaels 5 00 

I. M. Sloman 5 00 

M. Straus* 5 Oo 

Mrs. H. Rosenberg 5 00 

Dr. J. O. Roe 5 00 

By Mrs. Landsberg. $ 35 00 

Mr. J. Greenwood 5 00 

By Mrs. C. E. Mathews. 

A Friend 5 00 

Mr. H. Ray 5 00 

By Mrs. Henry Smith. $ 10 00 

R. A. Sibley 5 00 

E. J. Burke 5 00 

Miss Tuttle 5 00 

Mr. S. Medbury 5 00 

Curran & Goler 5 00 

Mrs. C. D. Van Zandt 5 00 

C. F. Paine 5 00 

A Friend 5 00 

George W. Ross-Lewin 5 00 

G. B. Watkins 5 00 

H. S. Hebard 5 00 

James Brackett 5 00 

Sill Stove Works 5 GO 

Mrs. A. H. Medbury 5 00 

By Miss Wild. $ 70 00 

Mrs. S. J. Arnold 5 00 

W. S. Dewey 5 00 

Mrs. Halle^tt 5 00 

By Mrs. W. H. Perkins. $ 15 00 

Mrs. C. W, Trotter 5 00 

Mrs. Carter Wilder 5 00 

Mrs. E. M. Smith 5 00 

Mrs. N. Osgood 5 00 

Moseley & Motley 5 00 

$ 40 00 

Donation, Miss J. Griffith 2 00 

Mrs. Charles Hart 5 00 

Mrs. James Hart 5 00 

Mrs. H. H. Morse 5 00 

Mrs. Chamberlin 5 00 

Mrs. D. Andrews 5 00 

Mrs. B. R. McAlpine 5 00 

Miss Dunlap 5 00 

Mr. S. Roby 5 00 

Mr. E. Harris 5 00 

By Mrs. H. H. Morse. $ 45 00 

Mrs. Alfred Ely 5 00 

By Mrs. Lawrence. 

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Our kind friend, Mrs. S. S. Gould, Jr., 

of Seneca Falls, has sent us a valuable addition 

to our library. We have received from 

her one hundred and forty monthlies, 

ninety cards, thirty paper covered books, 

and twelve bound volumes.



Ued. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, July 4, 1885, 

railroad accident, Jacob Spies. 


of Spacelus, (Senile Gangrene) John Goodenough, 

aged 74. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, July 12,1885, 

of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Hiram Winney, 

aged 40. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, July. 12, 

of Carcinoma of Uterus, Rosa Hays, aged 29. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, July 17, of 

cancer of liver, Catherine Bole, aged 25. 


of stricture of Oesophagus, Cristopher Kauffman, 

aged 56. 


of abcess involving alutial region, Joseph 

Levi. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, July, 24,1885, 

of Chronic rheumatism, John McCall, aged 60. 


of Articular rheumatism, Susanna Small, aged 

63. 

Receipts tor the Review. 

FOR JULY 1885. 

Miss Campbell, Auburn, by Miss Markham 

$ 50 

Mrs. B. F. A very, Wyoming, 50 cents ; 

Miss Orphelia Eaton, West Brighton, 

50 cents ; Mrs. E. S. Moore, Fairport, 

50 cents; Mrs. W. H. Smith, Geneva, 

50 cents, by Miss Hebberd 2 00 

C. Cauley & Co., adv., $5.00 ; Curran & 

Goler, adv., $5.00 ; J. Fahy & Co., 

adv., $5.00; W. H. Glenny & Co., 

adv., $5.00; Mrs. H. B. Hallett, 50 

cents; Ira A. Lovejoy, adv., $5.00; 

A. W. Mudge, adv., $5.00 ; Mrs. W. 

S. Osgood, 62 cents ; Osgood & Brigham, 

adv., $5.00; Scrantom, Wetmore 

& Co., adv., $5.00; H. C. 

Wisner, adv., $5.00, by Mrs. M. M. 

Mathews 46 12 

Mrs. L. M. Bentley.Holyoke, Mass., $1.00; 

Mrs. M. Bellows, 62 cents ; Mrs. D. 

D. S. Brown, Scottsville, $1.00: Mrs. 

E. I. Clark, 62 cents; Miss M. S. 

Clark, New York, $1.00; Mrs. E. 

Dovey, Omenee, Ontario, 50 cents; 

Mrs. J. D. Decker, Brockport, $2.00; 

Mrs. F. R. Delano, Niagara Falls, 50 

cents; Mrs. W. F. Evans, Niagara 

Falls, $1.00; Mrs. H. N. Griffith, 

Niagara Falls, 50 cents ; Miss Hyde, 

62 cents; Mrs. M. M. Mathews, 62 

cents ; Judge S. Miller, New Haven, 

Conn., 50 cents ; Mrs. J. Marburger, 

$1.25 ; Miss H. Ogden, Penn Yan, 

$1.00: Mrs. W. H. Perkins, for Mrs. 

H. Fowler, Buffalo, 50 cents; Mrs. 

A. H. Porter, Niagara Falls, 50 cents; 

Mrs. A. A. Porter, Niagara Falla, 

50 cents ; Mrs. Benj. Rhodes,Niagara 

Falls, 50 cents; Mrs. W. S. Scott. 

Geneva, 50 cents; Mrs. C. S. Stowiltz, 

Niagara Falls, 50 cents; Mrs.. H. S. 

Tomer, Hornellsville, 50 cents ; Mrs. 

S. VanAuken, Oswego, $1.00; Mrs. 

M. Wells, Niagara Falls, 50 cents; 

Mrs. J. D. Whipple, $1.00, by Treasurer 

18 73 

MRS. ROBERT MATHEWS, Treas., 

96 Spring Street. 

Donations for Month of July, 1858. 

Mrs. W. G. Watson, flowers. 

Mrs. Landsberg, second-hand clothing. 

Geo. P. Humphrey, reading matter. 

Mrs. Geo. C. Buell, second-hand clothing and 

flowers in bouquets. 

Elmer L. McBride, flowers. 

Mrs. Nichols, old cotton. 

K. P. Shedd, crate strawberries. 

Mrs. Wm, E. Hoyt, ice cream. 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, three jars of fruit. 

Miss Anna E. M. Wild, second-hand clothing. 

Clara Dyer, reading matter. 

Mrs. W. W. Webb, thirty-two covered and 

two unbound books. 

Mrs. J. W Goss, reading matter and old 

cotton. 

Mrs. Mathews, old cotton. 

Mrs. S. S. Gould, Jr., Seneca Falls, 140 

monthlies, 90 cards, 30 paper covered books 

and 12 bound volumes. 

Scranton, Wetmore & Co., blank book for 

list placed in the corner stone of the Children's 

Pavilion. 

Receipted Bills. 

We are indebted to Mr. James Field for 

two receipted bills, for the use, putting up, 

and taking down of tent and fly used on 

the occasion of the laying, of the corner 

s'tone of the Children's Pavilion. The 

bills amounted to eleven dollars, and we return 

our thanks to Mr. Field for his timely 

gifts. One of them was the icecream tent, 

the other the awning over the speakers 1 

platform. [Since the above was in type our 

friend, Mr. Field, has died.] 

Miss Campbell, a new pupil, entered the 

Training School for Nurses on the first of 

August.


Hospital Report. 

ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 31, 1885, 

Number patients received during month 82 

" discharged during month 57 

" remaining during month 101 

" deaths during month 9 

•' births during month 3 

— 252 

The Little White Hearse. 

As the little white hearse went glimmering by— 

The man on the coal-cart jerked his lines 

And smutted the lid of either eye 

And turned and stared at the business signs ; 

And the street-car driver stopped and beat 

His hands on his shoulders, and gazed up-street 

Till his eye, on the long track, reached the sky— 

As the little white hearse went glimmering by. 


A stranger petted a ragged child 

In the crowded walk, and she knew not why, 

But he gave her a coin for the way she 

smiled ; 

And a bootblack thrilled with a pleasure 

strange, 

As a customer put back his change 

With a kindly hand and a grateful sigh— 



A man looked out of a window dim, 

And his cheeks were wet and his heart was 

dry— 

For a dead child even was dear to him. 

And he thought of his empty life and said: 

" Loveless alive, and loveless dead— 

Nor wife, nor child, in earth or sky ! " 


—J. W. RILEY, in the Indianapolis Journal. 

A Brave Act. 

Some ten or more summers ago, a 

flat-bottomed, stern-wheel steamer was 

making its slow way down the tortuous 

windings of the Red river of the North. 

Among the few passengers was a little 

girl three years old—a dainty, fearless, 

winsome child—everybody's pet, from 

her father, an officer in the Hudson Bay 

Company's service, and the good-natured 

cuptain, to the grimy deck-hands, 

whose acquaintance the little maiden 

had somehow made on the lower deck. 

One afternoon the child was taken by 

her nurse to the floor of the lower 

deck. Three men were lying here, 

bound hand and foot. They were on 

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their way to Fargo to be tried for crime. 

The sheriff kept a close watch on them, 

for they were desperate men. They 

guessed their game was up and accepted 

their fate with half-cheerful bravado; 

but the sheriff knew them for ruffians 

and bullies, and never left his post. 

The child came up to the men and 

looked at them curiously ; they looked 

silently at her. Perhaps these rough, 

crime-hardened men had never seen 

anything so dainty and sweet before. 

She was not afraid of them, but began 

talking in her pretty, broken words, 

and putting her baby hands on the fetters 

of one, smiled and said, " What 

dat ? " The man smiled back without 

replying, and soon the little maid moved 

away. 

As she walked, there was a sudden 

"jerk of the whole ship, it ground jarringly 

against some unyielding substance 

hidden in the water; it tilted 

over slightly, the child lost her balance, 

and with a scream, fell over the side 

into the water. The three prisoners 

saw her disappear. 

The prisoner to whom she had spoken, 

and whose handcuffs she had for a moment 

touched, exclaimed to the sheriff, 

" God! don't ye shoot, Bill! " Then 

quickly rolling himself over and over, 

he dropped into the water beside the 

child. His hands were bound, but he 

caught the child's dress in his teeth, 

and treading the water with his fettered 

feet, kept the child above water until 

help came, and it was some minutes before 

the steamer's boat reached them. 

The child was saved. 

" I guess you air a white man after 

all, Eriker! " said the sheriff, admiringly, 

to the man. . 

It was afterwards learned that the 

sheriff told the story to the "jedge," 

and the judge, with Western freedom 

and that admiration for a gallant act 

which covers a multitude of sin, so arranged 

that when it was found that 

Eriker, who was a Scandinavian by 

birth, had mysteriously disappeared, 

nothing was done beyond a little official 

bluster, and he escaped.



Are the Children Home? 

Each day when the glow of sunset 

Fades in the western sky, 

And the wee ones tired of playing, 

Go tripping lightly by, 

I steal away from my husband, 

Asleep in his easy chair, 

And watch from the open doorway 

Their faces fresh and fair. 

Alone in the dear old homestead 

That once was full of life, 

Ringing with girlish laughter, 

Echoing boyish strife, 

We two are waiting together, 

And oft as the shadows come. 

With tremulous voice he calls me— 

" It is night! are the children home ? " 

"Yes, love," I answer him gently, 

" They're all home long ago." 

And I sing in my quivering treble, 

A song so soft and low, 

Till the old man drops to slumber, 

With his head upon his hand, 

And I tell to myself the number 

At home in a better land. 

Home where never a sorrow 

Shall dim their eyes with tears, 

Where the smile of God is on them 

Through all the summer years. 

I know, yet my arms are empty 

That fondly folded seven, 

And the mother heart within me 

Is almost starved for Heaven. 

Sometimes in the dusk of evening, 

I only shut my eyes, 

And the children are all about me, 

A vision from the skies ! 

The babes, whose dimpled fingers 

Lost their way to my breast, 

And the beautiful ones, the angels, 

Passed to the world of the blest. 

A breath, and the vision is lifted 

Away on the wings of light, 

And again we two are together, 

All alone in the night. 

They tell me his mind is failing, 

But I smile at idle fears ! 

He is only back with the children, 

In the dear and peaceful years. 

And still as the summer sunset 

Fades away in the west, 

And the wee ones, tired of playing, 

Go trooping home to rest, 

My husband calls from his corner, 

" Say, love, have the children come?" 

And I answer, with eyes uplifted, 

" Yes, dear 1 they are all at home ! " 

Hard words are like hailstones in 

summer, beating down and destroying 

what they would nourish were they 

melted into drops. 

Elegant Hands. 

A pretty hand can no more be unfashionable 

than a pretty face, but just 

now, we are told, it is particularly " the 

fashion " to display a pretty hand. 

That elaborate box of nonsense, the 

nail-case, made of plush or satinwood 

and filled with attractive little implements 

never used, is in more than usual 

request. 

Girls spend an hour at a time polishing 

away with pink powder and a bit of 

chamois lether, or carefully pushing 

back with an instrument for the purpose 

the slight film of skin that obscures 

the white crescent at the base of 

the nail. A freckle on tne back of the 

hand fills them with dismay, and causes 

an instant dema-nd for lemon-juice. 

A red hand sets the owner to searching 

domestic recipes for the proper composition 

of almond-paste. A tendency 

to knobbiness of wrist or knuckles 

plunges the victim into despair. 

There is good in all this, but the 

thing may be carried too far. A young 

lady's hand should always be wellcared 

for and pleasing to behold, but 

there are some blemishes possible upon 

its beauty which no one should become 

unwilling to incur. Such is that roughness 

of the forefinger which is apt to 

follow much use of the needle. 

Such also is the puckered appearance 

of the hand of a young lady who recently 

washed dishes, or the stained 

fingers of the preserve-maker; and who 

would not regard the row of blisters 

along a rosy plam that has not disdained 

to grasp a flat-iron as honorable 

scars, no more to be considered a disfigurement 

than the sword-cut on the 

forehead of a soldier ? 

The prettier your hands the better, 

young ladies, until they become too 

pretty to be useful. The white, smooth 

hand with a ring upon it is a charming 

thing, but the hand that is redder and 

rougher, and does good work, has the 

first claim upon our admiration. 

•>«» ' — 

Copies of the HOSPITAL REVIEW can 

be obtained of Mrs. Robert Matthews.


Some years ago,Victor Hugos only son 

died, leaving a widow and two or three 

children., In due time the widow married 

Monsieur Edouard Lockroyy the 

well-knowm Deputy, whom Victor Hugo 

at once took into his heart almost as a 

son. His son's widow was dear to him, 

his son's children yet dearer, and he accepted 

M. Lockroy as part of the household, 

with a kindliness of welcome 

which soon became real affection. 

The


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B. HE RIM A 1ST, ; 

DEALER IN 

Fresh CLTLCL Salt Jrfeats. 

Special attention Riven to choice selections 

for family use. 

277 East Main Street, Rochester, N. Y. 

C. CAUL.EY & CO. 

DEALERS IN 

MILLINERY GOODS, 

Ribbons, Velvets and Laces. 

50 & 52 State Street, Rochester, N. Y. 

CARPETINGS. 

HOWE & ROGERS are offering a complete assortment 

of all the new and choice designs of the season, of 

Scotch and American Axminsters, Wiltons, Moqnettes, 

Velvets, Body ana Tapestry Brnssels, Three-ply, Ingrains, 

Hemps, Rugs, Mattings, Mats, Oil Cloths, Linoleum, 

&c. Carpet purchasers will find at their store 

much the largest and choicest stock to select from, and 

all at the lowest market prices, at 43 STATE ST. 

Rochester Savings Bank. 

Cor. West Main and Fitzhugh Street. 

Incorporated April ai, 1831. 

XII. Interest dividends at the /ate of not exceeding four 

per cent per annum, computed from the first quarter day 

next succeeding the date of deposit, or from the date of 

deposit if made on a quarter day, to the first quarter day 

next pi eceding the date of withdrawal, will be paid to depositors 

on all sums of $5 and upwards, which shall have 

remained on der"* ri> for three months or more preceding a 

quarter day No interest will be paid oa the fractional 

part of a do lar or on money withdrawn between quarter 

days except that money may be drawn on the three last 

days of a quarter without loss of interest. The quarter 

days shall be the rtrst days of March, June, September and 

December, and deposits made on or before the third day of 

those months, will draw interest as if made on tbe first day 

of the month. Interest will be payable on the twentieth 

days of June and December, and if not drawn on or before 

those days will be added to the principal as of the 

first days of those months. Transfers of money on deposit 

from one account to another, may be made at any time 

with the same effect in all respects as if made on the first 

day of the Quarter in which such transfer is made. No 

interest or interest dividends will be allowed on the excess 

of any deposit over the legal limit. 

Adopted January 5*1 1885. 

OFFICERS-1885. 

MORTIMER F. REYNOLDS President 

JAMES BRACKETT 1st Vice-President 

SYLVANUS J. MACY 2d Vice-President 

CHAS. F. POND Secretary. 

TRUSTEES: 

James Brackett, Mortimer F. Reynolds, 

Charles F. Smith, Edward Harris, 

Charles C. Morse, Hobart F Atkinson, 

Frederick Cook, George E. MumforcL 

Seth J. Arnold, Gilman H. Perkins, 

Sylvanus J. Macy, William S. Kimball, 

Wm. C. Rowley, James W. Whitney. 

Rufus A. Sibley. 

THE OLD AND RESPONSIBLE 

3D. LEAIFLY'S 

STEAM 

DYEING and CLEANSING 

ESTABLISHMENT. 

Mill Street, cor. Platt St., (Brown's Race) 

ROCHESTER, N. Y. 

The reputation of this Dye House since 1828 has induced 

others to counterfeit our signs, checks, business cards, and 

even the cut of our building, to mislead and humbug the 

public. ^~ NO CONNECTION WITH ANY SIMI- 

LAR ESTABLISHMENT. 

I have NO AGENTS in the country. You can do your 

business directly with me, at the same expense as through 

an Agent. 

A Crape, Brocha, Cashmereand Plaid Shawls,and all bright 

colored Silks and Merinoes, cleaned without injury to the 

colors. Also. 

LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN S WOOLEN GARMENTS 

cleaned or colored without ripping, and pressed nicely. 

Also, FEATHERS and KID GLOVES cleansed or dyed. 

Silk, Woolen or Cotton Goods of every description dyed 

all colors, and finished with neatness and despatch on very 

reasonable terms. Goods dyed black every Tuesday, 

Thursday and Friday. Goods returned in one week. 

GOODS RECEIVED AND RETURNED BY EX- 

PRESS. Bills collected by Express Co. 

Address D. LEARY, Mill Street, corner of Platt Street 

Rochester, N. Y. 

IFOR THE HOUSE.1 

The Autumn No. of Vick's Floral Guide, 

Containing descriptions of 

Hyacinths, Tulips, Lilies, 

BDyS and SEEPS for PALL PLANTING a the GARDEN, 

And for Winter Flowers in the House, 

Just Published and sent FREE to all. 

JAMES VICK, SEEDSMAN, 


Established in 1881. 

ALLING~~& CORY, 

JOBBERS IN 

Printers' and Binders' Stock 

WRITING, WEAPPINO AND PRINTING PAPIB, 

66,68 & 70 Exchange Street, Rochester, N.Y. 

CURRAN & GOLER'S 

Powers Hotel Drug Store. 

ALL NIGHT.


HENRY LIKLY & CO. 

Successors to 

A. B. PRITCHARD A LIKLY, 

TRUNKS AND TRAVELING BAGS. 

All Kinds of Traveling Goods. 

96 State St., Rochester, N. Y. 

HAMILTON & MATHEWS, 

DEALERS IN 

Hardware and Cutlery, 

House Furnishing Goods, 

26 EXCHANGE ST. 

J". PAHY Ssc CO., 

Importers and Wholesale Dealers in 

RIBBONS, SILKS, MILLINERY, 

Fancy Dry Good, Notions, Zephys, Worsteds, &c. 

74 STATE STREET, 

And 2 and 4 Market St. Rochester, N. Y. 

WK. MILLER. S. L. ETTENHEIMER. 

E. S. ETTENHEIMER & GO. 

WATCHES, JEWELET, 

Diamonds, Clocks and Bronzes. 

No. 2 STATE STREET, 

(Elwood Building.) ROCHESTER, N. Y. 

GEO. C. BUELL & CO. 

^Vh.olesa,le G-rooers 

AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 

39 Exchange Street Rochester, N. Y. 

8y Goods sold in strict conformity to New York 

quotations. 

SCRANTOM, WETMORE & CO. 

BOOKSELLERS, 

Stationers and Engravers. 

Fine Fancy Goods for Wedding and Holiday Gifts. 

Copper Plate Engraving and Fine Printing 

done in the best manner, 

Fashionable Stationery In all the Latest Styles. 

12 State Street, Rochester, N. Y. 

SAMUEL SLOAN, 

GAS AND STEAM FITTER, 

No. 24 Exchange Street, 


Sole Agents in this city for the sale of Cornelias and 

Baker's Gas Fixtures, and Frink's Gas and Daylight 

.Reflector. 

French Crystal Glass Shades 

AND ARTISTS' MATERIALS, 

EMBRACING 

White Frosted Plaques, Composition Plaques, Plain 

and Gilt Rim Wood Plaques, Ebonized Wood 

Panels, W. & N. Water Colors, Tube 

Paints in Oil, Brushes, &c. Ac. 

OSGOOD & BRIGHAM. No. 7 Front Street 


A. W MUDGE, 

UNDERTAKER, 

No. 31 FITZHUCH STREET. 

K. F_ SHEIDTD, 

GROCER, 

No. 17 North Fitzhugh. St., 


SW Country Produce a Specialty. 

GEDDES «&> CO., 

Dealers in Latest Improved 

FURNACES & RANGES. 

ALSO, GENERAL JOBBING. 

28 Exchange St. Rochester, N. Y. 

JEFFEET'S, 

UNDERTAKER, 

155 State St., Rochester, N. Y, 

ESTABLISHED 1840. 

HENRY O. WISNER, 

IMPORTER, 


China, Crockery, Glass & Earthen Ware 

SILVER PLATED WARE, 

Bronzes, House Furnishing and Fano Goods, Cutlery, 

Tea Trays, Kerosene Goods, &o. 


E. B. BOOTH & SON, 

JEWELERS, 

Sole Agents for the Celebrated Bore/ & Courvoisiei 

Watch, and Lazarus & Morris' Perfected 

Spectacles. 

9 STATE STREET. 

UNION & ADVERTISER CO. 

FIISTE 

Book and Job Printing, 

45 and 47 EXCHANGE STREET. 


LOVEJOY, 

POWERS HOTEL,- Next to Main Entrance. 

And 71 E. Main St. 

coloring or other objectionable matter used.



Mechanics' Savings Bank, 

18 EXCHANGE STREET, 

ROCHESTER. N. Y. 

OFFICERS: 

SAMUEL WILDER President 

SAMUEL SLOAN. i ... „ -.. < 

EZRA R. ANDREWS, f Vice-Presidents 

JOHN H. ROCHESTER Sec'y and Treas. 

F. A. WHITTLESEY Attorney 

ARTHUR LUETCHFORD Teller 

GEO. B, MONTGOMERY Book-keeper 

TRUSTEES: 

Patrick Barry. Ezra R. Andrews, 

James M. Whitney, John J. Bausch,. 

Oliver Allen, Charles E. Fitch, 

George G. Cooper, Emory B. Chace, 

F. A. Whittlesey, A. G. Yates, 

Samuel Wilder, Isaac W. Butts.. 

Samuel Sloan, "Wm. Allen, 

XVI. Interest not exceeding four per cent, per annum 

will be allowed on the first days of March, June, September 

and December in each year, for all sums that shall .halve 

remained on deposit since the preceding quarter-day, and 

such interest shall be credited on the first days of June and 

December in each year. Interest will be credited on all 

amounts deposited on or before the third day of any quarter 

as if deposited on the first day of such quarter. 

XVII. On the first Tuesday of June and December, in 

each year, a dividend shall be declared out of the net pro 

fits for each depositor, at the rate specified in the next pr,eceding 

article; and all such dividends which shall not b* 

drawn, will be added to the principal, and draw interest* 

from the day it was computed, which will be- on the first 

days of June and December in each year. 

PINE PLUMBING, 

Steam and Hot Water 

Warming. 

GREENHOUSE & GAS WORK. 

Elmira, Rochester Buffalo, Chicago. 

PROMPT SERVICE, 

SKILLED MECHANICS, 

REASONABLE PRICES. 


SMITH, PERKINS & CO. 

WHOLESALE GROCERS. 

13, IS and 17 Exchange Street 


CHA8. F. SMTTH. G. H. PERKINS. H. W. BROW*. 

C. F- PAINE & CO. 

DRUGGISTS, 

24 East Street, Rochester, N. Y. 

Drugs, Medicines, Perfumeries and Toilet 

Goods in great variety. 

8^" Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. 

JOSEPH SCHLEYER, 

DEALER IN 

FRESH & SALT MEATS, 

LARD AND HAMS. 

276 East Main St., Rochester, N. Y. 

-ARTISTS' MATERIALS, 

Embracing materials for 

Oil and Water Color Painting, Lead Pencil Drawing, 

Porcelain and China Decoration, Wax Flowers, 

Decorative Art, Aitist's Fine Brushes, Ac 

WOODBURY, MORSE & CO. 

45 East Main St. 

ROCHESTER CHEMICAL WORKS. 

C. B. WOODWORTH & SON, 

Manufacturers of 

PERFUMERY, TOILET SOAP, 

FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 

65 West Main Street, 


"Pretty Shoes Make Pretty Feet." 

BIG 

SHOE 

EAST MAIN, 

(Osburn House Block,) 

And State Street, No. 26. 

fine Goods and Custom Work a Specialty. 

WM. EASTWOOD. 

W. H. GLENNY & CO. 

IMPORTERS OF 

Crockery, China and Glassware, 

FANCY GOODS, PLATED WARE, LAMPS, to. 

150 East Main Street 

i3^"Don't forget our Bargain Counter. 

GBO. B. WATKINS, Manager. 

DWIGHT PALMER" 

Wholeaale and Retail Dealer in 

BULK OYSTERS, 

Fresh Fish, Lobsters, Clams, Scollops. 

Pickled Pigs Feet, Tongue, Tripe.





AT THE 

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VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., SEPTEMBER 15, 1885. No. 2 

Lifted Over. 

The following beautiful lines, by H. H., 

have a new charm now that she has overtaken 

" the precious boy." 

As tender mothers, guiding baby steps, 

When places come at which their tiny feet 

Would trip, lift up the little ones in arms 

Of love and set them down beyond all harm, 

So did our Father watch the precious boy 

Led o'er the stones by me, who stumbled oft 

Myself, but strove to help my darling on. 

He saw the sweet limbs faltering, and saw 

Rough ways before us, where my arms would 

fail, 

So reached from Heaven, and lifting the dear 

child, 

Who smiled on leaving me, He put him down 

Beyond all hurt, beyond my sight, and bade 

Him wait for me. Shall I not then be glad 

And, thanking God, press on to overtake? 

A Situation. 

" Well, girls," said my Uncle Barnabas, 

" and now what do you propose to 

do about it ? " 

We sat around the fire in a disconsolate 

semi-circle, that dreary, drizzling 

May night, when the rain patted 

against the panes, and the poor little 

daffodils in the borders shook and shivered 

as if they would fain hide their 

golden heads once more in the mother 

soil—my mother, Eleanor and I. The 

first pale and pretty and silver-haired, 

with her widow's cap and her dress of. 

black bombazine and crape, the sweetest 

looking old lady I think I ever saw. 

Eleanor sat beside her, looking, as she 

always did, like a princess, with large 

dark eyes, Diana-like features, and her



hair twisted in a sort of coronal around 

her queenly head. While I, plain' 

homespun Susannah—commonly called 

" for short " Susy—crouched upon a 

footstool in the corner, my elbows on 

my knees, and my. chin in my hands. 

Uncle Barnabas Berkelin sat in the 

middle of the circle, erect, stiff and 

rather grim. He was stout and short, 

with a grizzled moustache, a little round 

bald spot on the crown of his head,and 

two glittering black eyes that were always 

sending their dusky lightnings in 

the direction least expected. 

Uncle Barnabas was rich, and we 

were poor. Uncle Barnabas was wise 

in the ways of the world, and we were 

inexperienced. 

Uncle Barnabas was prosperous in all 

he did, while, if there was a bad bargain 

to be made, we were pretty sure 

to be "the ones to make it. Consequently, 

and, as a matter of course, we looked 

up to Uncle Barnabas and reverenced 

his opinions. 

" What do we propose to do about 

it?" Eleanor slowly repeated, lifting 

her beautiful jetty brows. 

"Yes, that's exactly it," said my 

mother, nervously ; " because, Brother 

Barnabas, we don't pretend to be business 

women, and it is certain that we 

can't live comfortably on our present 

income. Something has got to be 

done." 

And then my mother leaned back in 

the chair, with a troubled face. 

" Yes," said Uncle Barnabas, " something 

has got to be done ! But who's to 

do it?" 

And another dead silence succeeded. 

" I suppose your girls are educated ?" 

said Uncle Barnabas. " I know I found 

enough old school bills when I was 

looking over my brother's papers," 

" Of course," said my mother, with 

evident pride, "their education has been 

most expensive. Music, drawing, and 

use of the globes—" 

" Yes, yes, of course," interrupted 

Uncle Barnabas. "But is it practical? 

Can they teach ? " 

Eleanor looked dubious. I was quite 

certain that I could not. Madam Le- 

noir, amid all her] list of accomplishments 

liad not included the art of practical 

tuition. 

" Humph ! " grunted Uncle Barnabas. 

" Queer-things this modern idea 

of education. Well, well, if you can't 

teach, you can surely do something! 

What do you say, Eleanor to a situation?" 

'• A situation ? " 

The color fluttered in Eleanor's 

cheeks like pink and white apple blossoms. 

" I spoke plain enough, didn't I ? " 

said Uncle Barnabas, dryly. " Yes, a 

situation !" 

" What sort of a situation, Uncle 

Barnabas ? " 

" Well, I can hardly say. Part servant, 

part companion to an elderly 

lady!-" explaimed the old gentleman. 

" Oh, Uncle Barnabas, I couldn't do 

that." 

" Not do that. And why not ? " 

" It's too much—too much ! " whispered 

Eleanor, losing her regal dignity 

in the pressure of the emergency, "like 

going out to service." 

" And that is precisely what it is! " 

retorted Uncle Barnabas, nodding his 

head. " Service! Why, we're all out 

at service in one way or another in this 

world !" 

"Oh, yes, I know," faltered; poor 

Eleanor, who, between her distaste for 

the proposed plan, and her anxiety not 

to offend Uncle Barnabas Berkelin, 

didn't quite know what to say. But I 

—I've always been educated to be a 

lady." 

"So you won't take the situation, 

eh ? " said Uncle Barnabas, staring up 

at a wishy-washy little color drawing of 

Cupid and Psyche, an " exhibition 

piece " of Poor Eleanor's, which hung 

above the chimney piece. 

"I couldn't indeed, sir." 

"Wages twenty-fiê dollars a month," 

mechanically repeated Uncle Barnabas, 

as if he were saying off a lesson." Drive 

out every day in the carriage, with the 

missus, cat and canary to take care of, 

modem house with all the improvements, 

Sunday afternoons to yourself,


and two weeks, spring and fall, to visit 

your mother." 

"No, Uncle Barnabas, no," said 

Eleanor, with a little shudder, " I am a 

true Berkelin, and I cannot stoop to 

menial duties." 

Uncle Barnabas gave such a prolonged 

sniff as to suggest the idea of a very 

bad cold in his head, indeed. 

"Sorry," said he. " Heaven helps 

those who help themselves, and you 

can't expect me to be any more liberalminded 

than Heaven. Sister Rachel," 

to my mother, " what do you say ? " 

My mother drew her pretty little figure 

up a trifle more erect than usual. 

" I think my daughter Eleanor is 

quite right," said she. " The Berkelins 

have always been ladies." 

I had sat quite silent, still with my 

chin in my hands, during all this family 

discussion ; but now I rose up and came 

creeping to Uncle Barnabas's side. 

" Well, little Susy," said the old gentleman, 

laying his hand kindly on my 

wrist," What is it?" 

" If you please, Uncle Barnabas," 

said I, with a rapidly throbbing heart, 

" I would like to take the situation." 

" Bravo !" cried Uncle Barnabas. 

" My dear child ? " exclaimed my 

mother. 

" Susannah !" uttered Eleanor, in accents 

by no means laudatory. 

" Yes," said I. " Twenty-five dollars 

a month is a great deal of money, and 

I never was afraid of work. I think I 

will go to the old lady, Uncle Barnabas. 

I'm sure I could send home at least 

twenty dollars a month to mother and 

Eleanor, and then the two weeks spring 

and fall would be so nice ! Please, Uncle 

Barnabas, I'll go back with you 

when you go. What is the old lady's 

name?" 

"Hername?" said Uncle Barnabas. 

" Didn't I tell you ? It's Prudence— 

Mrs. Prudence." 

" What a nice name," said I; I know 

I shall like her." 

"Well," I think you will," said Uncle 

Barnabas, looking kindly at me. "And 

I think she will like you. It is a bargain 

for the nine o'clock, train to-morrow 

morning?" 


" Yes," I answered stoutly, taking 

care not to look in the direction of my 

mother and Eleanor. 

"You're the most sensible of the 

lot," said Uncle, approvingly. 

But after he had gone to bed in the 

best chamber, where the ruffled pillow 

cases were, and the chintz-cushioned 

easy chair, the full strength of the 

family tongue broke on my devoted 

head. 

" I can't help it," quoth I, holding 

valiantly to my colors. " We can't 

starve. Some of us must do something. 

And you can live very nicely, 

mother, darling, on twenty dollars a 

month." 

" That is true," sighed my mother 

from behind her bordered pocket-handkerchief. 

But I never thought to see a 

daughter of mine going out to—to service 

!" 

"And Uncle Barnabas isn't going to 

do anything for us, after all ? " cried out 

Eleanor indignantly. "Stingy old fellow 

! I should think he might at least 

adopt one of us! He's as rich as 

Croesus and never a chick nor a child." 

" He may do as he likes about that," 

I answered, independently. " I prefer 

to earn my own money." 

So the next morning I set out for the 

unknown bourne of New York life. 

" Uncle Barnabas," said I, as the train 

reached the city, " how shall I find 

where Mrs. Prudence lives? " 

" O, I'll go there with you," said he. 

" Are you well acquainted with her?" 

I ventured to ask. i > 

" Oh, very well, indeed!" answered 

Uncle Barnabas, nodding his head. 

We took a hack at the depot and 

drove through so many streets that my 

head spun around and around like a tee 

totum before we stopped at a pretty 

brown stone mansion—it looked like a 

palace to my unaccustomed eyes—and 

Uncle Barnabas helped me out. 

" Here is where Miss Prudence 

lives," said he, with a chuckle. 

A neat little maid, with a frilled 

white apron and rose-colored ribbons in 

her hair, opened the door with a courtesy, 

and I was conducted into an ele-

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gant apartment, all gilding, exotics and 

blue satin damask, when a plump old 

lady dressed in black silk, with the 

loveliest Valenciennes lace at her throat 

and wrists, came smilingly forward like 

a six-year old sunbeam. 

" So you've come back, Barnabas, 

have you ? " said she. "And brought 

one of the dear girls with you. Come 

and kiss me, my dear." 

"Yes, Susy, kiss your aunt," said 

Uncle Barnabas, flinging his hat one 

way and his gloves another, as he sat 

complacently down on the sofa. 

" My aunt!" I echoed. 

"Why, of course," said the plump 

old lady, Don't you know ?" I'm your 

Aunt Prudence." 

" But I thought," I gasped in bewilderment, 

" that I was coming to a situation." 

" Well, so you are," retorted Uncle 

Barnabas. "The situation of adopted 

daughter in my family. Twenty-five 

dollars a month pocket money—the 

care of Aunt Prudence, cat and canary. 

And to make yourself generally useful." 

" Oh! uncle," cried I, " Eleanor 

would have been so glad to have come 

if she had known it." 

" Fiddle strings and little fishes ! " illogically 

responded my Uncle Barnabas. 

" I've no patience with a girl 

that's too fine to work. Eleanor had 

the situation offered her, and she chose 

to decline. You decided to come, and 

here you stay ! Ring the bell, Prue, 

and order tea, for I'm as hungry as a 

hunter, and I dare say little Susy here 

would relish a cup of tea." 

And this was the way I drifted into 

my luxurious home. Eleanor, in the 

country cottage envies me bitterly, for 

she has all the tastes which wealth and 

a metropolitan home alone can gratify. 

But Uncle Barnabas will not hear of 

my exchanging with her. 

" No, no!" says he. "The girl I've 

got is the girl I mean to keep. Miss 

Eleanor is too fine a lady to suit me." 

But he lets me send them liberal presents 

every month, and so I am very 

happy. 

THE HOSPITAL REVJEW. 

Bermuda. 

We make the following extracts from an 

interesting work on Bermuda, written by 

Julia C. R. Dorr : 

" It is the custom here to plant, if one may 

use the expression, a little cedar tree in the 

frosting of the bride's cake. The diminutive 

thing is carefully removed after the cake meets 

its legitimate fate, and replanted near the 

dwelling of the wedded lovers. Fifty years or 

so ago, two little trees decorated a certain, 

bride's cake. Both were planted afterwards 

and they grew side by side for half a century. 

Not long ago the bride of that ancient wedding 

died, and one of the trees fell, too. From its 

fragrant wood her coffin was made. The other 

waits its turn." 

"Rose geraniums grew wild in great profusion, 

making the air sweet with their strong 

perfume. They are called in Bermuda the 

"grave-yard geraniums," and. I was told that 

pillows for coffined heads are filled with the 

fragrant leaves." 

" We turn into the quiet church-yard, where 

so many generations lie buried. To unaccustomed 

eyes the scene is a strange one, and the 

effect is most singular. The surface of the 

ground is almost hidden by gray, coffin-shaped 

tombs, like huge sarcophagi, solid and heavy 

as the eternal rocks of the island. As I understand 

it, the bodies are deposited—tier upon 

tier, in many cases—in excavations or tombs, 

cut in the underlying rock, and these strange 

structures are raised over them. But the impression 

one gets is that of a multitude of great 

stone coffins resting on the ground. Very few 

of them bear any inscription. For the most 

part they are simply numbered, and the record 

of names and dates is kept in a parish book." 

"Often the road passes for long distances 

between lofty walls of solid rock, from th» 

crevices of which all lovely growths are springing. 

They are red with the scarlet of the geranium, 

aglow with the orange of the lantana, 

or they are hidden by the purple veil of the 

wild convolvulus. The dainty sweet alyssum 

clings to the rook in great patches, and the 

little rice plant lays its pink cheek against it 

lovingly. The priokly-pear clasps its fibrous 

roots round some rough stone, and stretches 

out an uncouth arm to ward you off ; but, as if 

to make amends, the loveliest, daintiest ferns 

smile at you, dancing in the wind, and the 

delicate maiden's-hair waves its soft fronds 

caressingly as you go by. There and everywhere 

spring the life-plant and the blue stars 

of the Bermudiana. The orange is not now in 

!ruit, but on many of the lemon trees the yellow 

globes are hanging like golden lamps." 

" No plants seem to be indigenous there, but 

all were oonveved thither by natural or artificial 

means. When the island was discovered 

it had but one variety of tree—the cedar, or 

luniper, which is even yet more numerous, 

than all the rest combined." 

1—**+ 

Old cotton thankfully received.


Sleep They Not Well ? 

Sleep they not well, the sainted dead ? 

For sorrow they have peace instead : 

Our Father housed his children dear, 

Before the tempest gathered near, 

And burst in thunders loud and dread. 

Healed are the hearts that inly bled, 

The mourning souls are comforted, 

And stanched the fount of every tear; 

Sleep they not well ? 

And if, until the Lord appear. 

Earth, like a mother pressing near 

To watch beside the loved one's bed, 

Wraps her dark mantle round their head, 

And shelters them from pain and fear, 

Sleep they not well? 

—Canon Charles D. Bell, D. D. 

Sunday Rest. 

Rufus Choate, when at the climax of 

his reputation, said that his brain would 

long before have given way, owing to 

the intense and constant strain of professional 

work, had it not been for the 

refreshing and recreating influence of 

the fiction, poetry, history, and Greek 

and Latin classics he read. But Rufus 

Choate did die of an overworked brain, 

which shattered a nervous system that 

knew but little of the restfulness of relaxation. 

What the great orator sought for in 

books, the zealous man of business and 

the faithful man-of-all work may find in 

the periodical rest of Sunday. "Men 

who labor six days in the week and rest 

on the seventh," said Dr. Farre, in his 

testimony before a committee of the 

House of Commons," will be more 

healthy and live longer, other things 

being equal, than those who labor 

seven ; they will do more work and better 

work." 

Twenty leading physicians of England 

said, "We say ditto to Dr. Farre." 

The managers of large stables, wjiere 

several hundred horses are kept, say a 

horse must have one day's rest in seven 

or he will break down. One days rest 

in ten, or nine, or even eight days, will 

not keep him in working condition. 

Mr. A was a driving man of business, 

and nothing more. He made a fortune, 

and worked seven days a week, as 


if he was struggling to gain his first ten 

thousand dollars. 

One day, in the midst of his prosperity, 

his mental vision being dazed by 

the apprehension of some coming evil, 

he took his own life. The physician's 

judgment was, " Insanity caused by 

overwork." The friends said, " He had 

worked seven days in the week for 

years; that killed him." 

Mr. B was the President of a 

manufacturing company, the management 

of which kept him from his home 

six days. On Saturday he would return 

home, taking with him a large 

package of business papers, and passed 

Sunday in examining them. 

"Why do you labor and toil as you 

do?" said a Christian friend. "Six days 

in the week are enough for one to work 

who wishes to retain his health. You 

will kill yourself by this continuous 

strain. Besides, my dear friend, you 

are neglecting the better part of yourself, 

as well as your family, by allowing 

business to absorb your Sundays." 

"I know it," he said sadly. "But I 

must do it, or my business will get 

ahead of me. By.and-by I hope to get 

time to rest on Sundays, but I can't 

now." 

He went on working seven days in 

the week, and died, in the prime of life, 

of softening of the brain. 

"Had it not been for the weekly rest 

of the Sabbath," said a Boston merchant 

of twenty years' successful business, 

"I should have been a maniac 

long ago. It was nothing but the quiet 

of that day which rested my brain and 

saved it from giving way under the constant 

pressure." 

"I have had an extensive acquaintance 

with business men," said another 

Boston merchant, "and I cannot recall 

one who worked seven days in the week 

who did not shorten his life or go insane." 

Some men say, "Oh, the Fourth 

Commandment is an old Jewish law intended 

for an isolated farming people— 

it is not applicable to modern civilization." 

That is a mistake—it is the command



of a higher than human intelligence, 

the declaration of the physiological law 

of rest, which demands obedience one 

day in seven, under the penalty of a 

physical punishment that shall make the 

violator an imbecile.— Youth's Com 

panion. 

Capital and Labor. 

One of the pleasantest incidents recorded 

in a long time is reported from 

Sheffield, England. The wages of men 

in the iron works of Sheffield are regulated 

by a board of arbitration, by whose 

decisions both masters and men are 

bound. 

For some time past the iron and steel 

trade has been extremely unprofitable, 

and the employers cannot, without large 

loss, pay thfe wages fixed by the board, 

which neither employers nor employed 

have the power to change. To avoid 

this difficulty the workmen in one of 

the largest steel works in Sheffield hit 

upon a device as rare as it was generous. 

They offered to work for their employers 

one week without any pay 

whatever. How much better that plan 

is than a strike would be! Five years 

ago there was a strike at these very 

works, and some personal violence resulted 

in its progress, 

A strike means idleness and disorder 

among the workmen, who earn, nothing; 

and when the strike ends the employed 

are poorer, the employers are 

not better able than they were to pay 

high wages, and each party is irritated 

against the other. 

In this case the workmen earned 

nothing during the week, to be sure, 

and in that respect were not better off 

than they would be if on a strike. But 

they were at work, and avoided the 

dangers which usually accompany idleness. 

Moreover, they were helping instead 

of impoverishing their employers, 

and were thus making it easier for those 

employers to give them full work and 

full wages; hereafter. 

It is in. its revelation of cordial rela. 

tions between master and man, however, 

that this incident is most gratify 

ing. It is a recognition of the fact that 

their interests are one. 

When business revives the employers 

will probably pay their workmen double 

wages for a week, and the advantage of 

mutual good feeling will prove how 

much superior is this method of bringing 

capital and labor to terms, to the 

ordinary method. 

Two Blue Bottle Flies. 

Sometimes even a very slight knowledge 

of natural history is of great practical 

use. As an illustration, we give a 

fact recently told by a naturalist. 

A gentleman, making a call at the 

house of a friend, was astonished to find 

the rooms and passages in confusion; 

and, on inquiring the cause, was answered 

: 

" Oh. we are very much annoyed 

here ; a rat has come to finish his existence 

under the floor of our large 

drawing-room. We do not know the 

exact place, but we cannot endure the 

stench any longer, so we have removed 

the furniture, rolled up the carpets, and 

called in the carpenters, who are just 

beginning to take up the floor." 

" Now don't be too hasty," said the 

visitor; "you need not pull up more 

than one board. I will show you what 

I mean presently; and meanwhile, shut 

down the drawing-room windows, and 

close the door." 

He then stepped down into the garden, 

walked round to the horse stables, and 

after a few minutes' absence came back 

to the drawing-room with both hands 

tightly clasped. Placing himself in the 

center of the drawing-room, he opened 

his hands, and out flew two large blue 

bottle flies, and buzzed around the room 

for a second or two. But presently one 

of them alighted on a certain plank of 

the floor, and was almost immediately 

followed by the other. 

" Now, then," said the visitor, " take 

up that board, and I'll engage that the 

dead rat will be found beneath it." 

The carpenters applied their tools, 

raised the board, and at once found the 

cause of the unpleasant smell.


An Exchange. 

A correspondent in an exchange tells 

a pleasant story of Gen. Oliver, author 

of the well-known hymn-tune " Federal 

Street." Gen. Oliver, who lives in Salem, 

and a clerical neighbor, had each 

ordered from the same Salem tailor a 

pair of pantaloons from the same piece 

of cloth, to be delivered on the Saturday 

evening next following. The two 

gentlemen were not then acquaintances. 

Saturday evening came, and two bundles, 

the outside marking upon which 

was not then noticed, were delivered at 

their respective homes. 

On Sunday morning each, rising, essayed 

to wear his new garment. Each 

was a misfit. Gen. Oliver then looked 

at the wrapper, and, seeing another 

name than his own at once surmised 

the cause of the trouble. He donned 

his ordinary dress and proceeded to his 

clerical neighbor's residence. Ringing 

the bell, he inquired for the Rev. Dr. 

Mills, who presently appeared. After 

an exchange of stately courtesies (no 

names being given), Gen. Oliver said: 

" I called, reverend sir, to inquire if 

you were disposed for an exchange." 

" For an exchange ?" asked the doctor, 

" and with whom and when ?" 

M With me, and to-day." 

" With you ? and to-day !" 

Gen. Oliver, though one of the " sons 

of the clergy," was not very clerical in 

appearance. 

" My dear sir," said the clergyman, 

" it will not be possible. It is already 

nearly time for the ringing of the second 

bells. I have a special sermon and have 

sent the day's hymns to my organist, 

and I cannot possibly do it." 

" Well, my friend," said the general, 

" I am very sorry, as it would be a convenience 

to each of us, for you have 

got my breeches and I have yours!" 

"Aha! aha! Oh yes, yes, yes! I 

see! I see ! Exchange ? Yes, with all 

my heart, for I have been losing my 

legs for an hour in a pair of meal-bags, 

'a world too wide for my shrunk 

shanks.' Mrs. Mills, bring down those 


big trousers ; the riddle s solved ; the 

tailor's boy blundered." 

Gen. Oliver asked the pastor whether 

this operation in breeches was a breech 

of the Sabbath, and the pastor gave 

it up. 

»«» 

WHILE Judge Tracy was on the circuit, 

going from court his trace broke. 

The judge spent over a half-hour trying 

to mend it, but to no purpose. His 

patience was exhausted, and he expressed 

his vexation in words. A negro 

came along, and the judge told him of 

his trouble. The negro let out the 

trace, cut a hole in it, and the job was 

done. 

" Why," said the judge, " could I not 

have thought of that ?" 

" Well, marster," said the negro, 

"don't you know some folks is just 

naturally smarter than t'others ?" 

" That's so," said the judge. " What 

shall I pay you for fixing my trace ?" 

" Well, marster, fifty cents will do," 

said the negro. 

" Fifty cents !" said the judge. " You 

were not five minutes at it." 

" I don't charge you fifty cents for 

doing it," said the negro. " I charge, 

yon twenty-five cents for doing it and 

twenty-five cents for knowing how to do 

it."—Savannah News. 

One of the most popular ladies in 

Chicago was on a crowded horse-car on 

one occasion when a poor old colored 

woman got on with a child, but none of 

the men stirred. 

After waiting a minute, the lady got 

up and gave her seat to the woman. 

At once all the men got up and offered 

their seats ; but she said, " No, gentlemen, 

it is too late now," and she remained 

standing. ••• 

The Superintendent of the Elmira 

Reformatory says that drunkenness 

can be traced in the ancestry of more 

than a third of the convicts sent there ; 

that only one in four of their parents 

has received a common school education 

; and that, as nearly as can be ascertained, 

the home influence in half 

the cases has been distinctly vicious.



ROCHESTER, N. Y.. SEPTEMBER 15. 1885. 


On the last Saturday of August we visited 

the Hospital and found fifteen patients receiving 

treatment in the Male Surgical 

Ward. One man was confined to his bed 

with a burnt leg, but it was healing and he 

was doing well. No death had occurred 

during the month, and no patient was very 

sick. Since then a boy who was injured 

by being run over by an engine, at Fairport, 

has died. Three of our boys are still in 

this ward. Mr. L., the carpenter, who injured 

his back by falling from a ladder, had 

improved and returned home. The man 

with a fractured hip was better, and had 

left. F. P., who fell in a cellar and cut his 

head, had been confined to the bed, but was 

improving, up and dressed. Mr. H., a conductor 

on the Central road, who had been 

injured by the cars so that amputation 

above the knee had been necessary, was doing 

well but had been removed to the Mansard. 

The Male Medical Ward had twenty inmates. 

The sickest patient was Mr. C, an 

aged man, an old resident of Rochester, 

who felt that his end was near, and he has 

since died. He seemed greatly soothed by 

the tender care of his nurse, who gently 

ministered to him. Five other patients* 

were in their cots ; some with rheumatism 

and others were consumptives. One man, 

•who had been a great sufferer from rheumatism, 

was so much improved that he had 

left the bed to whjch for some time he had 

been confined. The exzema patient gains 

very slowly ; sometimes he improves and 

then seems to lose what he has gained. 

There were twenty under treatment in 

the Female Medical Ward. One had just 

died with an ovarian tumor. The woman 

who for a long while has been slowly con- 


valescing from pneumonia is now so well 

she will soon leave the Hospital. One patient 

was under Dr. Rider's care, having 

some disease of the eye ; another was a consumptive 

; a third had a diseased stomach. 

Four patients were confined to their cots. 

A new patient had just been received. 

The inmates of the Female Surgical Ward 

numbered twenty-one. Four of these were 

confined to their cots ; one of these was a 

consumptive, another had sore thrpat and 

was feverish, the third was Katy, the girl 

with the burnt limb, and the fourth was 

Tilly, who had had a surgical operation 

and was rapidly improving. Several children—of 

whom we speak elsewhere—were in 

this Ward. In the lower cross ward were 

two very sick patients, the one a paralytic 

and the other a sufferer from consumption. 

In the Lying-in Ward were three babies, 

three mothers, and three waiting patients. 

One of the Pavilions was occupied by a 

man recovering from erysipelas. 


We have them of all ages at the City 

Hospital. The youngest, with the exception 

of the three babies born within it, is a 

little colored girl about two years old. Her 

name is Sarah, and she comes from the Orphan 

Asylum. She has a curvature of the 

spine, is confined to her bed, and is to wear 

a plaster of Paris jacket. Lawrence Barnes, 

the boy with a broken knee, is improving, 

and so is Terrance Martin, whose ankle was 

injured by a boy who was coasting down 

hill; Terrance goes about on crutches. 

Tommy Jones, who fell from a tree and 

broke his arm, has gone home, and so has 

Gust Grunst, whose limb was amputated 

below the knee. Max, the German boy, 

whose limbs were paralyzed, walks now 

with the use of his crutches ; Freddy Lyons 

is improving, and Tommy Heeney changes 

but little. Lorenz Fisher, fourteen years 

old, has rheumatism in the knees and does 

not leave his bed. Sidney Greenslave, the


boy with a stiff neck, is improving. George 

Van Ingen, twelve years old, the boy who 

fell from Vincent Street bridge, the physicians 

think will live. It seems almost impossible 

that he could survive such a fall. 

George Estleman, a boy thirteen years old, 

who was run over by an engine atTairport, 

on the 2d of September, was brought to the 

Hospital so badly injured that it was necessary 

to amputate his leg and arm, and he 

died on the 3d of September. George was 

standing on the rear platform of the caboose 

of a freight train, and was thrown off by a 

sudden jar of the car. The wheels of the 

*' pusher" engine passed over him and 

mangled his left arm and leg and injured 

his spine. He was brought to the Hospital 

on the Day Express train, but the poor boy 

was too badly injured to survive. Rosa, 

the little German girl with abscesses near 

the knee, is very much better. She says 

the physicians hope she will get well. Katy 

H., with the burnt leg, is also much better 

than she was a month ago ; the grafting of 

healthy flesh in the sore made by the burn 

has been very successful, and she hopes 

soon to be about again. Tilly, who has 

been afflicted with sore limbs for two years, 

and who had-some of the diseased flesh cut 

out, is much better' than she has been. 

Minnie Bryant, whose heart is diseased, is 

quite feeble, and reclines on her cot much 

of the time. 

We know the little folks who are helping 

us build the Children's Pavilion, are interested 

in all their young friends who are sick 

at the hospital, and so we make a monthly 

report of their cases, and are glad to have 

monthly receipts of bricks or donations for 

the new Children's Pavilion. 

Omission. 

Last month in our report of the laying 

of the corner-stone of the new Children's 

Pavilion, the name of Mrs. M. M. Mathews 

should have been added to the list 

of the original members of the Board of 

Lady Managers who were then present. 



Helen Osgood, for a " brick," $ 25 

Mrs. Bartlett, four bricks in memory 

of "Little Richard of Annandale," 1 00 

" Another package of bricks from the 

little folks at the Lakeside. Charlotte." 

Twelve from Mary Warner Knapp.. 3 00 

Two from James Cyrus Dryer 50 

One from Leora Marie Dryer.... 25 

One from Rufus Joseph Dryer 25 

Mrs. A. H. Porter, Niagara Falls, for 

her granddaughters, the Porter, Osborne 

and Robinson children, for 

bricks 5 00 

For bricks, earned by Ruth Osborne, 

Auburn 1 00 


Previously acknowledged... .$1,227 39 

Total receipts $1,238 64 

Contributions to this fund are urgently solicited, 

and should be sent to Mrs. Robert 



the Hospital. 

» 

The Children's Pavilion. 

The new Children's Pavilion is enclosed, 

and already presents an attractive appearance. 

We would remind our friends that 

five thousand dollars more are needed to 

pay for its erection. We have faith that 

friends will aid us in defraying the cost of 

this much needed building. 

More Bricks for the Pavilion. 

We are indebted to the little folks on the 

bluff at West Beach, Charlotte, for more 

bricks for the Pavilion. A large package 

of twelve bricks comes from our young 

friend Mary Warner Knapp, and four are 

from three little "sunbeams," James Cyrus 

Dryer, Leora Marie Dryer and Rufus Joseph 

Dryer, who, as their mother says, " are 

radiant with thoughts of love and sympathy 

for the little suffering children." Four 

more come to us "in memory of little 

Richard of Annandale." Who will send 

us the largest package of bricks next 

month ?



In Memorianau 

Our hearts to-day go out in tender sympathy 

to a bereaved family, whose home 

has been suddenly darkened by the departure 

of a beloved daughter, whose early 

womanhood gave rich promise of a bright 

future, but " her sun has gone down while it 

was yet day." 

About twenty of the Hare family had 

been spending a delightful summer at 

Huntingdon Valley, near Philadelphia,when 

Ida Hobart, daughter of Charles Willing 

and Mary W. Hare, who for several years 

resided in this city, was attacked with peritonitis 

and died after an illness of nine days. 

During her residence in Rochester Miss 

Hare was a frequent visitor at the City 

Hospital, and her sunny presence was welcomed 

in our wards, and the memory of 

her loving ministries will long linger in the 

hearts of our inmates. She identified herself 

with many of the interests of the Hospital, 

took an active part in our Donation 

Festivals, was an efficient member of St. 

Luke's Flower Mission. She brought cards, 

flowers, books, fruit, bright smiles and 

cheering words to.the Hospital patients, and 

if out of the city at Christmas or Easter was 

sure to send some token of her remembrance. 

On our last visit to the Hospital it 

was touching to hear one, who for years had 

been unable to walk and was confined, to 

her rolling chair, speak of the kind acts of 

the departed, who was wont, aided by a 

friend, to take the patient out for an airing, 

rolling her chair, and thus breaking in upon 

the monotony of her life by giving her a 

long ride and a view of other parts of the 

city. Less than a year ago Miss Hare left 

Rochester, but, during her residence here, 

her earnest, consistent Christian life and her 

genial presence won for her many friends, 

who will fondly cherish her memory. 

Little Deetta Hart Mitchell has begun 

early to remember the Hospital children. 

She sent them a doll's hat the other day. 



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A Bamboo Bedstead. 

While we were absent last summer, a 

beautiful little white bamboo bedstead was 

sent to the Hospital by Lulu Belle McAJlaster. 

It had a canopy top, was trimmed 

with dotted muslin and lace, over blue, and 

was a very dainty bedstead. Lulu and her 

little brother had slept in it through their 

babyhood, and as they had outgrown it, it 

was sent to the Hospital to be used by the 

sick children. It had a nice mattress, a 

pillow, sheets and pillow cases, and a silk 

comfortable that Lulu had spent two years 

in making. The mother suggested that one 

of the little girl's dolls should be put in the 

bedstead, but Lulu replied : " Do you think 

you would want to give away one of your 

children?" When we have the Pavilion 

completed we shall find a nice place for 

Lulu's pretty bamboo bedstead, and the 

comfortable so neatly made by the little 

donor. 

• 

There is great need of old bed-quilts or 

bed tidies in the Hospital. We need a 

large number of these. They should be 

quilted so that they can be washed. 

Receipts for the Review. 

FOR AUGUST, 1885. 

Dr. C. J. Andrus, 25 cents ; Maurice Bowens, 

50 cents; William Crowley, 50 

cents; Rev. M. S. Hard, 50 cents; 

Wm. G. Lightfoot, 50 cents ; Mrs. 

Henry Martin, 50 cents ; Mrs. O. M. 

Wilcox, 50 cents ; all of Canandaigua, 

by Mrs. Henry Martin $ 3 25 

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E. Mitchell, Cleveland, Ohio, $1.00 ; 

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cents ; by Treasurer 5 48 

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ROCHESTER, N. Y., August 31, 1885. 

Number in Hospital August 1st, 1885. .101 

" received during month 46 

" births during month 4 

—— 151 

Number discharged during month.... 55 

" deaths during month o 

•< remaining Sept. 1st, 1886, 93 

• 101 


At Huntingdon Valley, near Philadelphia, 

August 14, 1885, of Peretonitis, Ida Hobart 

Hare, formerly of Rochester, N. Y. 

At the 'Rochester City Hospital, August 27, 

1885, of Chronic Peritonitis, Elizabeth Schier, 

aged 18. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, August 31, 

1885, of Acute Peritonitis, George Bringel, 

aged 52. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, August 31, 

1885, of Senile Decay, Timothy Chapman, 

aged 76. 

• •• 

Donations for August. 

Mr. James Field, use of awning for Pavilian 

and tent. 

Mrs. W. H. Hoyt, reading matter and second-hand 

clothing. 

Mrs. N. Foote, reading matter and secondhand 

clothing. 

Miss H. H. Backus, reading matter. 

Miss Frank Whittlesey, reading matter. 

Miss Wales, flowers and apples. 

Mrs. A. W. Mudge, child's'bed and chair. 

Mrs. S. C. Bruce, reading matter. 

Mrs. Rogers, infrnt's clothing. 

Mrs. Nichols, old cotton. 

Mrs. Poole, reading matter. 

Mr. D. Seeley, bedstead and bureau. 

Mrs. D. W. Powers, shawl. 

Mrs. E. Baker, reading matter. 

«i» 

Mrs. Lowell's grave is very near that 

of John Lothrop Motley, in Kensal 

Green, and one of the many very beautiful 

floral tokens of sympathy came 

from the daughter of the late eminent 

historian. 

in 

Women are exclusively employed as 

coupon counters by the Rothschild's 

banking firm in London. 

The everyday cares and duties, which 

men call drudgery, are the weights and 

counter-poises of the clock of time, giving 

its pendulum a true vibration, and 

its hands a regular motion.—Longfellow. 

No gFace is more necessary to the 

Christian worker than fidelity; the 

humble grace that marches on in sunshine 

and storm, when no banners are 

waving, and there is no music to cheer 

the weary feet.—S.J Niccolls. 

Satan always rocks the cradle when 

we sleep at our devotions.



On the Death of an Infant Daughter. 

BY DUDLEY PHELPS. 

The sweetest voice is hushed, 

The loveliest smile is gone; 

The foot of Death has crushed 

My child—my dearest one, 

Was there no other place to tread, 

That he must trample on thy head ? 

That foot is on my heart, 

With all its fatal weight; 

It mangles every part, 

And lays me desolate ; 

The pain of more than death is mine, 

The lighter pang, dear child, was thine. 

How drear the household hearth ! 

How dark is every room ! 

There is no light on earth, 

To dissipate the gloom. 

Before we prized them, joys are fled— 

Tears for the living—not the dead. 

Away beyond the tomb, 

Sweet spirit, thou art flown, 

Where loveliness can bloom, 

And blighting is unknown ; 

My faith would trace thine upward way, 

And catch of Heaven some cheering ray. 

One short and happy year 

Thou smiledst, on us below; 

We hoped to keep thee here 

Till we were called to go ; 

But God takes back the blessing lent, 

Though we our weaker claims present. 

To tbee it was not given 

To speak with mortal tongue : 

The dialect of Heaven 

Already hast thou sung. 

Too hard our speech—too slow our ways ; 

Angels must teach thee words of praise. 

What we cannot discern, 

Thine eyes can plainly see ; 

How much have we to learn, 

If we would equal thee ! 

Thine infant spirit near the throne. 

Excels all mind that earth hath known. 

Our selfish hearts had bound thee, 

To hold thee back from bliss : 

Now glory beams around thee 

In brighter worlds than this. 

Farewell till guardian angels come 

To bear us to thy happy home. 

Hundreds of stars in the pretty evening sky, 

Hundreds of shells on the shore together; 

Hundreds of birds that go singing by, 

Hundreds of bees in the sunny weather ; 

Hundreds of dew-drops to greet the dawn, 

Hundreds of lambs in the purple clover \ 

Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn, 

But only one mother the wide world over. 

On Saturday, August 29th, the "'Autocrat," 

whom all delight to honor, 

passed his seventy-sixth birthday. The 

dinner, at Beverly Farms, with only 

three guests, was a quiet, informal affair, 

but after it the neighbors and the 

neighbors' children called to congratulate 

the doctor, and wish him ' • many 

happy returns of the day." At length, 

with such a show of letters and telegrams 

and flowers pouring upon him, 

he said " This is more than my last 

birthday." A raised-letter volume of 

his poems was presented him from 

" The Perkins Asylum for the Blind," 

and tender messages came to him from 

all quarters, none more touching than 

that of the venerable Quaker poet and 

friend. This is the eheery little note 

which Mr. Whittier sent to Oliver 

Wendall Holmes: 

My Dear Holmes: Amidst the 

thanks and congratulations of thy 

birthday, I hope the kindly remembrance 

of thy old friend will not be unwelcome. 

My father used to tell of a 

poor innocent in his neighborhood, 

who, whenever he met him would fall 

to laughing, crying and dancing. "I 

can't help it, sir. I can't help it. I'm 

so glad you and I are alive ! " And I, 

like the poor fellow, can't help telling 

thee that I am glad thee and I are alive 

—glad that thy hand has 4ost nothing 

of its cunning, and thy pen is still busy. 

And I say in the words of Solomon of 

old : " Rejoice, O young man in thy 

youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in 

the days of thy youth;" but don't 

exult over thy seniors who have not 

found the elixir of life and are growing 

old and " past their usefluness." I have 

just got back from the hill and am tired, 

and a pile of unanswered letters are befor 

me this morning, so I can only say, 

God bless thee. 

If our religion is not true, we are 

bound to change it; if it is true, we are 

bound to propagate it.—Archbishop 

Whately. 

" 'Tis better to have loved and lost, 

Than never to have loved at all I"



A child who has just mastered her 

Catechism confessed herself dissappointed, 

because, she said, " Though I 

obey the Fifth Commandment, and 

ohey my papa and mamma, yet my 

days are not a bit long in the land, because 

I am still put to bed at seven 

o'clock." 

Divine confidence can swim upon 

those seas which feeble reason cannot 

fathom — W. Seeker. 

A prominent physician of Athens, 

Ga., who has had many cases of sore 

throat lately, made an investigation and 

found nearly every one of them was 

caused by cigarette smoking. 

The Scotchman s grace : "Some have 

meat, but canna eat; some could eat, 

but have na meat; I have both, thank 

the Lord! " 

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VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y.( OCTOBER 15, 1885. No. 3 

I Shall be Satisfied. 

.Not here, not here ! not where the sparkling 

waters 

Fade into mocking sands as we draw near; 

"Where in the wilderness each footstep falters, 

"I shall be satisfied," but O not here! 

Not here, where all the dreams of bliss deceive 

us, 

Where the worn spirit never gains the goal; 

Where, haunted ever by the thought that 

grieves us, 

Across us floods of bitter memory roll. 

There is a land where every pulse is thrilling 

With rapture earth's sojourners may not 

know, 

Where heaven's repose the weary heart is stilling, 

And peacefully life's time-tossed currents 

flow, 

Far out of sight, while yet the flesh enfolds us, 

lies the fair country where our hearts abide, 

And of its bliss is naught more wondrous told 

us, 

Than these few words, "I shall be satisfied." 

Satisfied! Satisfied ! The spirit's yearning 

For sweet companionship with kindred 

minds, 

The silent love that here needs no returning, 

The inspiration which no language finds, 

Shall they be satisfied ? The soul's vain longing, 

The aching void which nothing earthly fills ? 

Oh! what desires upon my soul are thronging, 

As I look upward to the heavenly hills 

Whither my weak and weary steps are tending; 

Saviour and Lord! with thy frail child abide! 

Guide me towards home, where, all my wandering 

ending, 

I shall see Thee, and "shall be satisfied." 

When we are alone, we have our thoughts 

to watch ; in the family, our tempers ; in 

company, our tongues.—Hannah More. 

A man should keep his friendship in 

constant repair.—Johnson.


Correspondence., 

For the Hospital REVIEW. 

We are permitted to make the following 

extracts from a private letter written from 

one of the Philippine islands, and dated 

Cebu, March 3, 1885: 

Last Saturday, at five o'clock in the 

afternoon, we jumped into our little American 

phaeton, T. taking charge of our large 

pith sun hats and our bag of clothes, and 

I the reins, to manage Tony's fiery little 

pair of grays, and off we started for Naga. 

The ponies were frisky and T. was busy in 

the vain endeavor to light his cigar without 

letting the hats fall out. By the time T. 

had got to the end of his box of matches 

the ponies were quiet enough to allow me 

to hold the hats with one hand and drive 

with the other, and after T. had lighted his 

cigar we settled down to admire the scenery. 

One moment we were on a high hill looking 

over varied colored fields of waving sugar 

cane and maize, divided by dark foliaged 

hedges, with here and there a nipa house 

peeping out from some shady corner, and 

the accompanying shed under which the 

patient buffalo paced its weary rounds at 

the end of a sugar mill bar ; the next moment 

we were down in a hollow passing 

through shady groves of cocoa palms, then 

up the barren looking incline of Pardo, 

with its fine unfinished church at the top, 

which edifice has been crawling up for the 

last four years, and will probably be finished 

in the next decade ; an adieu waved to the 

priest at his convent window, and then we 

rattle down the incline to find ourselves 

again in fertile land; two minutes difficulty 

with the ponies, a narrow escape from an 

upset, and we are over Talisay ford ; then 

we pass along a smooth road, through a 

cut, over stone and wooden bridges, through 

the village of Minglanilla, down an incline, 

up a hill, fording rivers, through a covered 

bridge, then again along a smooth road, and 

at last we stop in front of Mr. Mejia's 

house, where servants relieve us of our 


baggage ^nd: pontes,rand wfe find ourselves 

htearfcily Welcomed* bf the ^biadk. 1 intelligent 

gentleman. 

With a wash to remove the dust from the 

outer man, and sherry and bitters to comfort 

the inner one, we were cfuite, ready to 

play with the children, and chat with Don 

Pablo. We were hungry, the dinner was 

fine, and our walk afterwards through the 

village and our visit to the little "governor 

made us enjoy our sleep. 

We were up at six the next morning, had 

a fine sea bath, after which we took a heavy 

desayuno and prepared for an excursion to 

Don Pablo's estate over the mountain. At 

nine o'clock we were mounted on a two 

wheel cart, the driver sitting in front, T. 

behind, with his limbs dangling down, and 

I in the middle to balance and guard the 

two bottles of beer and a corkscrew. We 

took no other refreshments, expecting to be 

back in two hours for breakfast, as Don 

Pablo told us that "right behind the house, 

on his estate, was a cascade where we could 

bathe, and it would only take a short time 

to see the other points of interest. A 

broken bridge forced us to leave the cart 

and walk to the house, and then we commenced 

to search for the cascade, but the 

coachman did not know where it was. We 

followed the stream up for half a mile without 

seeing it, and then to escape from rain 

took refuge in a nipa house and were regaled 

with boiled eggs and plantains. The 

inmates of the house told us the cascade 

was a long distance off, up through the 

mountains. We did not believe them, as 

Don Pablo had told us it was close to his 

estate, so the rain over, we took a beautiful 

road leading us through fine shady jungles, 

over verdant hills, through clear limpid 

streams, which we crossed sometimes on 

the coachman's shoulders and sometimes 

hopping* from stone to stone, occasionally 

wetting our feet in a slip ; then, on, along 

the overhanging bank of a stream with the 

mountains rising sheer up on each side. 

After walking for two hours we were told the


cascade was half a mile farther on, up the 

side of the mountain. On we went. The 

road now diverged to the right and led us 

straight up the mountain, then turning to 

the left took us along the side through a 

jungle, and very soon our ears were gladdened 

by the roar of falling water. Peering 

through the jungle we saw a sight that well 

repaid us for our long walk. Starting out 

from some invisible spring, in a break in 

the mountain, came a narrow, silver stream 

of water, rushing with tremendous force 

down the marble white rock steps, forming 

in the basins at the foot of each a foaming 

whirlpool, then surging out in a new direction 

to the step below, and so on down to 

the large, clear basin far down in the ravine 

below, from which it spurted through interstices 

in the rocks, making for a quarter of 

a mile a series of small rapids before forming 

into the quiet flowing stream we had 

crossed so many times in our walk. 

After gazing in silent admiration for 

some time, we looked around for some way 

of getting down the steep mountain side 

and found a path by which we were able to 

descend to the stream below the rapids. 

Thence we despatched the coachman to 

buy a chicken and sweet potatoes. Then 

we waded up the stream, took a draught of 

the fine, cool water, and a bath,washed our 

white clothes and put them on a rock to 

dry while we amused ourselves in the water. 

What fun it was diving down 

leaving our large pith hats floating on 

the water, then coming up again, with good 

aim,stickingour heads into them. T. would 

then shout out in a commanding drill sergeant's 

tone : "Change hats !" and down 

we would go, coming up each in the other's 

hat. When our clothes were dry we 

climbed up the side of the cascade and 

found that what we supposed was the head 

of the stream was a sharp turn which it 

took from a deep cut, which cut was almost 

totally covered by a natural bridge of rock. 

Following up the cut we found the stream 


came out of the myriads of small cuts and 

crevices in the rock which rose up like a 

wall barring our further progress. 

It was then half-past one, and commencing 

our homeward journey we were soon 

back on the road, and revived by the sight 

of our coachman sallying forth from a hut 

with a chicken on a spit in one hand and a 

plateful of sweet potatoes in the other. 

We cut the chicken in two, each taking a 

half in our fingers, and, filling our pockets 

with sweet potatoes we continued our way 

eating as we walked. When we had finished 

the chicken and all the potatoes, we 

sent the coachman up a tree for cocoanuts, 

which he opened with his knife, and we 

took a long, refreshing drink of the milk. 

We used the stream as a finger bowl and 

went on our way. At four o'clock we arrived 

at Naga, where Don Pablo was anxiously 

awaiting us. On explaining the cause 

of our delay he told us we should have 

gone down stream instead of up, and that 

the cascade we had visited was half way 

across the island, which is there about fifteen 

miles broad. 

After dinner we took a drive in the 

village, seeing the usual motley crowd of 

Indians, some with clean, white shirts— 

these were the dudes—others with flashy 

red ones, and a great many dressed in holes, 

badly united with dirty cloth. 

J. T. M. 

«•• 

An Artistic Rural Wedding. 

Weathersfield Bow, a hospitable hamlet, 

nestling in a lovely valley, under the shadow 

of Mt. Ascutney, on the west bank of the 

Connecticut, in the Green Mountain State, 

was on the eighth of September last the 

scene of a brilliant wedding. 

The natural scenery in this region is 

very beautiful, and the ride from Ashley's 

ferry to Elmsholme, about a mile long, 

through the Jarvis estate, over which the 

wedding guests passed, as seen by daylight is 

wild and romantic. The south side of the



road is bordered by old stump fences, over 

which the wild clematis throws a silvery 

veil of silken seeds, pierced by the graceful 

plumes of the golden rod and the purple 

aster. On the north side the tops of 

sumacs wave their scarlet, gold, and bronze 

pennons, contrasting richly with the sombre 

white pines. Below is the fertile meadow, 

and beyond, the river and the mountain. 

The present occupant of Elmsholme is a 

brother of the late William Hunt, the great 

American artist, and the whole arrangements 

of the wedding were so artistic and 

beautiful that we copy the following extracts 

from a description given by the 

Granite State Journal and other papers : 

The contracting parties were Francis Brown 

Hayes, son of the late Francis B. Hayes of 

Boston, and Nino Katherine, youngest daughter 

of Col. Leayitt Hunt of Weathersfield Bow. 

Miss Nino is a granddaughter of the late Hon. 

William Jarvis, wh6 was appointed consul and 

charge riCaffairs to Portugal by President Jefferson 

about 1808, where he remained during 

Mr. Madison's administration. He was 

known throughout New England, after his return 

to this country in 1818, as "Consul 

Jarvis." The night was dark as jet, rendering 

all the more beautiful the hundreds of 

Japanese lanterns that lined the street from 

the residence to the little church a short distance 

to the south. The lawn opposite the 

church was also illumined with gaily colored 

lanterns, as well as the various residences 

in the near vicinity. A huge bonfire was 

started on the spacious grounds opposite the 

church entrance, and kept aglow during the 

ceremony, and rockets and Roman candles enlivened 

the scene. The friends of the bridegroom 

drove over from Claremont. N. H., in 

close carriages, crossing the Ashley ferry, 

which was lighted up on both sides of the river. 

The decorations at the church were under 

the supervision of Mr. Clyde du Vernet Hunt 

and were most elaborate and very tastily 

arranged, every nook and corner being completely 

enveloped in living green. Much of the 

festooning was of evergreen, consisting of running 

pine and ferns heavily entwined, and extending 

from the center of the ceiling to the 

top of the windows where it was met with a 

heavy fringe of ferns finishing with a row of 

cat-tails extending from the wainscoting 

around the entire church. The windows were 

completely filled with great fir trees and 

with masses of ferns and wild flowers. In 

each corner of the church were trees tall enough 

to reach the ceiling. Suspended over the altar 

was a large picture, in Gobelin tapestry, twenty 

feet long, representing the meeting of Jacob 

and Rachel at the well. The altar was one 

dense bank of asters, roses and ferns, the col- 

ors were most beautifully blended, while the 

chancel railing was entirely bidden with 

smilax and white lilies, and on both ends 

rested the emblematic white doves. Between 

the doors was very neatly and artistically arranged 

the monogram of the two H's—Hunt 

and Hayes. The entrance and vestibule also 

evinced the same good taste, and the whole 

presented a most charming bower. 

Hundreds of candles were ranged in front of 

the pulpit and close together around the walls 

of the church, while scores of Chinese 

lanterns served to heighten the dazzling effect, 

as they swung from great strings of evergreens 

that reached aloft from wall to wall. 

Immediately after the ceremony followed 

the reception at Elmsholme. The large parlors 

were soon filled with a very select company of 

friends to present their congratulations and 

good wishes to the happy couple who stood beneath 

a unique design of roses which formed 

the links of a chain and above which were 

perched two doves. The home of Col. Hunt is 

filled with a rare collection of art, exhibiting 

the taste of a connisseur in the selection and 

arrangement of the paintings and bric-a-brac. 

Many of the paintings were by the late Wm. 

Hunt, while others, with other works of art, 

were secured by Consul Jarvis in his foreign 

travels. The whole house seemed like a vast 

conservatory, being so completely filled with 

roses and rare exotics. 

For His Sake. 

"The only son of his mother, and 

she a widow." In these words we find 

the explanation of the look of grief on 

Mrs. Terry's face, and the quick gathering 

tears that she resolutely brushed 

away that they might not dim her 

vision of the brave young soldier in his 

new gray uniform, who occasionally 

turned, in his saddle to wave her a farewell. 

On the brow of the hill he 

stopped and took a long look at the 

home of his childhood. His gaze wandered 

from the great house, with its 

wide verandas covered with climbing 

roses all in bloom, over the fields, the 

woods, and the meadows, with the little 

brook and the whitewashed negro 

quarters, all deserted now; then his 

glance returned to the solitary figure at 

tjie gate, waving a white signal. "Dear, 

dear mother," he murmured, as he 

waved his handkerchief in reply, then 

quickly drawing it across his eyes, he 

gave a low whistle to his horse and was 

soon gone out of her sight. 

Gone into the untried world of war, 

with a boy's bright dreams of honor



and advancement, and with a heart full 

of the mistaken, blinded patriotism 

that placed the State above the country. 

And she was left to her desolate 

home. One after another the monotonous 

days passed, filled with anxious 

foreboding and pleading prayers for his 

safety. Occasionally a letter reached 

her from the camp, full of hopeful 

words and loving messages, and when 

she received one saying his regiment 

would pass within a few miles of their 

home, and that he hoped to see her, 

she watched the days go by with feverish 

impatience. 

Then there came rumors of the approach 

of a Union force and one morning 

the quiet air of the little valley 

shuddered with the fierce sounds of 

battle. O it was hard to bear! The 

thought that her boy was in danger so 

near her and she powerless to protect 

him. Hour after hour the heavy reports 

resounded until the twilight 

brought quiet. 

Early the next morning a neighbor 

brought the news that the Union forces 

had been repulsed, and that the courthouse 

at I had been turned into 

a temporary hospital, and that he had 

seen her son there badly wounded. 

It was twelve miles to the I 

court-house, and the time necessary to 

traverse that distance seemed endless 

to the anxious mother's heart. To her 

unaccustomed eyes the sight that met 

her as she entered the large court-room 

seemed appalling. There was a smell 

of chloriform in the air, and deep 

groans pained her ear. Up and down 

the rows of cots she passed until she 

came to the one where lay the young 

lad she had last seen on that bright 

Spring morning waving a gay farewell.. 

But what a change. There was a dead-' 

ly pallor on the once rosy cheeks, and 

the brown hair that fell in wild disorder 

over the forehead was matted with 

blood, while his right arm lay limp and 

shattered at his side. Her kisses and 

the warm tears falling on his face 

aroused him, and at the sight of his 

mother's face all his pain was forgotten 

for the time. 

Soon the doctor joined them and 

cheered Mrs. Terry with the assurance 

that Charles' wounds were not dangerous, 

and that although he was very 

weak from loss of blood, he would 

probably be able to be taken home in a 

week or two. "He will need most 

nourishing food, and that is very hard 

to procure, but I will do my best for 

him," and so saying the cheery doctor 

passed on. 

As Mrs. Terry rode home in the twilight 

she turned over and over in her 

mind plans for obtaining some beef 

from which to make beef tea. It was 

near the close of the war and , everything 

was fabulously high. She and 

Uncle Tony and Aunt Luda, the only 

negroes who had not left her, managed 

to get their living mostly from the garden. 

Charles had sent her most of his 

wages, but they were of course Confederate 

money and so could buy but little; 

at that time she had no money at 

all, but she concluded to try and sell 

some articles of silverware. The next 

day she did so, though she was obliged 

to sell them for much less than their 

value. She then purchased the beef 

and made the tea, which on the following 

day she carried to the hospital, 

where she, was well repaid for her sacrifice 

by Charlie's enjoyment of the 

nourishing draught. As she held the 

bowl to his lips, the eyes of the soldier 

in the next cot were fastened on them, 

with an eager, famishing look. Mrs. 

Terry noticed it, and noticed also that 

he wore a blue uniform. "Perhaps he 

is the very one who shot my boy," she 

thought, and her heart grew hard and 

bitter toward him. 

But Mrs. Terry was more than a 

mother—she was a Christian ; and the 

unconscious, silent pleading of those 

wistful eyes brought to her mind the 

words "Sick and in prison, and ye visited 

me not; inasmuch as ye did it not 

to one of the least of these, ye did it 

not to Me." There was a sharp, brief 

struggle in her mind. Then as Charlie 

lay back on the downy pillows she had 

brought him, she refilled the bowl with 

the dearly purchased beverage, and


pressed it to the stranger's lips, while 

unconsciously she repeated the words, 

"For His sake, for His sake." His 

feeble, earnest words of thanks we're 

not more expressive than the look of 

satisfaction on his pale face. 

When Mrs. Terry came the next time 

she noticed that the blue coat's cot was 

empty, and learned that he had been 

exchanged. 

In the years of toil and privation 

that followed the war, this little incident 

was soon forgotten by Mrs. Terry. 

Charles had just finished preparing for 

college when he entered the army, and 

after he had recovered from his wounds 

he was anxious to resume his studies. 

His mother made great sacrifices, and 

sent him through college, and then to 

a school where he fitted himself for a 

civil engineer. Soon after his graduation, 

there was a place to be filled in 

some Government survey, and Charles 

applied for the position to the Congressman 

who had the matter in charge. 

' It would be such a fine thing if I 

could only get the place,' he said after 

telling his mother of it, 'but I have very 

little hope of doing so, for though I 

know I am well qualified, I have no acquaintance 

with the Congressman, and 

some favorite of his will probably be 

the successful one. 

A few days after, Charles entered the 

house exclaiming Here's a letter from 

Washington, but it's directed to you, 

mother, instead of me. Have you been 

applying for a government position ?' 

When Mrs. Terry opened the letter, she 

found Charles's commission enclosed in 

the following note: 

Dear Madam : I ana glad to be able to give 

your son this appointment; for I have often 

wished for an opportunity to express my gratitude 

to the gentle Southern lady who ' for His 

sake' gave a wounded Northern soldier a ' cup 

of cold water'—or more literally, of beef-tea— 

that she had prepared for her own son. That 

Northern soldier is as ever, your friend, 

There were tears in Mrs. Terry's eyes 

as she handed the letter to Charles, and 

she slowly repeated : 

' Bread upon the waters cast, 

Shall be gathered home at last. 1 


MATNARD. 

Farragut's Conversion. 

When a bby once learns that there is 

nothing manly,in imitating the vices of 

men, he has made a long stride in wisdom. 

Moreover, he may count himself 

among the fortunate, if he learns 

it so early in life that the pursuit of 

foolish and wicked pleasures does not 

practically injure his future career. 

Admiral Farragut tells this story of 

his own boyhood ;. 

"When I was ten years old," he says, 

"I was with my father on aboard a 

man-of-war. I had some qualities that, 

I thought, made a man of me. J could 

swear like an old salt, could drink as 

stiff a glass of grog as if I had doubled 

Cape Horn, and could smoke, like 

a locomotive. I was great at cards, 

and fond of gaming in every shape. At 

the close of dinner, one day, my father 

turned everybody out of the cabin, 

locked the door, and said to me — 

" 'David, what do you mean to be ?' " 

" ' I mean to follow the sea. 1 " 

" ' Follow the sea ! Yes, to be a poor, 

miserable, drunken sailor before the 

mast; be kicked and cuffed about the 

world, and die in some fever hospital in 

a foreign land. 

" No, David; no boy ever trod the 

quarter-deck with such principles as 

you have, and such habits as you exhibit. 

You'll have to change your 

whole course of life if you ever become 

a man.' " 

" My father left me and went on 

deck. I was stunned by the rebuke, 

and overwhelmed with mortification. 

" A poor, miserable, drunken sailor 

before the mast! Be kicked and cuffed 

about the world, and die in some fever 

hospital! That is to be my fate," 

thought I. " I'll change my life, and 

change it at once. I will never utter 

another oath; I will never drink another 

drop of intoxicating liquor ; I 

will never gamble. I have kept these 

three vows ever since. Shortly after I 

had made them I became a Christian. 

That act was the turning-point in my 

destiny."—Youth's Companion.


Dr. Prime. 

To hundreds arid thousands of homes 

in our ovrti and in foreign lands, the 

news of the death of " Irenaeus,"' the 

veteran editor of the New York Observer, 

came as tidings of a personal bereavement. 

The genial- charrn of his 

pen carried with it so much of his own 

personality that his readers felt always 

the hand-clasp of the cheery guide, 

philosopher and friend, whether his discourses 

were grave or gay. 

In the following clipping from one of 

his weekly letters in the Observer, we 

reproduce a bit of family history of romantic 

interest. 

Many years ago a party of ladies and 

gentlemen were bathing in the surf, on 

the beach at Easthampton, near the 

eastern end of Long Island. A young 

clergyman walking on the sand some 

little distance from the party of bathers 

was suddenly startled by cries of distress 

from the water. He perceived on 

the instant that some one had been carried 

out by the undertow, and the rest, 

panic-stricken, unable to render aid. A 

stalwart young man and a strong swimmer, 

he rushed to the spot, flinging off 

his coat as he ran, plunged into the sea, 

found a young lady drowning, rescued 

her gallantly and brought her to the 

land. She was speedily restored. It 

was natural that such an incident should 

result in friendship, which ripened into 

affection and led to the marriage of the 

parties. The writer of these lines is 

the third of the children that followed 

this romantic union. So that, from her 

who was rescued from the very jaws of 

death, there have sprung children and 

children's children who have risen up 

to pronounce blessings on her name 

which is now lovingly bourne in the 

fourth generation from the saved on 

that beach at Easthampton. I have 

just returned from the spot, and inspired 

by the delicious, bracing air, the 

sight of the great and wide sea, have 

been impelled to tell the story which 

has been a tradition, but as yet unpublished. 

THE H6si»itAL REVIEW. 39 

God. moves in a mysterious way, 

His wonders to perform, 

He plants His footsteps in the sea; 

and in this case I can observe the Providence 

by which he led those young 

people .to. each, other, that they might 

be the parents of a family to be trained 

for his service. 

English "Crowner's Quest." 

The grave-digger in Hamlet speaks 

slightingly of "crowner's-quest law," 

meaning the coronor's inquest which 

had decreed Christian burial to a 

suicide, who would have been buried at 

the cross-roads had she *' not been a 

gentlewoman." An English reporter, 

haying gone through two Yorkshire reports 

of inquests, publishes some of 

them as specimens of "crowner's-quest" 

English. In the following cases the 

juries found such verdicts as these: 

"She come to her death by the 

lighten striken her." 

"Come to his death in the following 

manner, to wit: He was born dead." 

" From laying out in the sun to dry 

after tumbling down a well." 

" From the hands of some person Or 

persons to the jury unknown and afterward 

a-going on the track and got run 

over by incoming train." 

" From exposier or something." 

" She come to her death by strangulation 

in testimony we have sit our 

hands and seal the day above wroten." 

" By taking into his own hands an 

overdose of morphene, or something of 

that sort." 

" From causes unknown to the jury 

and having no medical attendance." 

" Said child, aged i day old, came to 

her death from spasms, said child having 

been found by the witness in a 

trunk, under very suspicious circumstances." 

" The jourers on their ouaths do say 

that he come to his deth by old age, as 

tha could not see ennything else the 

matter." 

" Come to his death from the following 

causes, to wit, from some suddent 

cause to the juorers unknown."


THE HOSPITAL REVIEW 

THE HOSPITAL REYIEW. 

ROCHESTER. N. Y.. OCTOBER 15. 1885. 


On the 18th of October we visited the 

Hospital and found the lawn deserted; a 

damp, chilly atmosphere out of doors was 

not tempting to the invalids, and most of 

them were within their rooms or the Hospital 

Wards. 

Sixteen were receiving treatment in the 

Female Medical Ward. Two of these 

were confined to their cots, both being consuptives. 

An aged German woman who 

had been blind for seven years, had been 

operated upon for cataract, and another 

operation will probably be necessary; beside 

her sat her husband, evidently seeking 

to comfort her with his love and sympathy. 

One woman had a gathering in her head 

and also diseased lungs. Another woman 

with diseased lungs was groaning with pain 

in her limbs and side. Most of the inmates 

of this ward were afflicted with 

chronic diseases; Mrs. McE, who has long 

had swelled limbs said they were more uncomfortable 

than usual. A dyspeptic patient 

had been very sick but was better. 

There were fourteen patients in the Female 

Surgical Ward. Two of the aged 

ones were hobbling about on their canes 

and seemed in comfortable condition; one 

was familiarly known in the ward as "Grandmother," 

and the German one as " Groszmutter." 

In the Cross Ward were two 

women suffering from internal tumors; 

both were obliged to resort to opiates to 

mitigate their pain. The one, a German 

woman, about thirty-three years old, was 

the mother of five children, and the youngest, 

a baby of seventeen months, had been 

brought to the Hospital to have its burnt 

leg dressed, and she was fondling the little 

thing in a motherly, affectionate way. Our 

heart ached as we heard her sad story. 

Twice a day she receives hyperdermic treatment, 

and without this she could not sleep. 

Mrs. James, the colored paralytic, who has 

so long been an inmate of the Hospital, is 

at last released from her sufferings, she 

very quietly breathed her last about two 

weeks since. Quite a number of patients 

were amusing themselves with their needles. 

Seventeen were under treatment in the 

Male Surgical Ward. Eight of whom 

were confined to their cots. One of these 

who had a compound fracture of the leg 

was doing well, as also was a man whose 

arm had been amputated. One patient 

while crossing the railroad track had been 

struck by the engine and his arm and ankle 

fractured. One man had an inflamed foot. 

Two deaths had occurred in the ward, the 

one, that of a man who was run over by a 

cart and injured internally, the other that of 

a boy who had been run over on the railroad. 

There were seventeen patients in the 

Male Medical Ward, only three of whom 

were confined to their beds. One of these 

was the excema patient, whose convalescence 

is so extremely slow that he has to 

exercise great patience. He said to us 

that Christ suffered without complaining, 

and in his cheerful bearing this sick man 

beautifully illustrates the sustaining power 

of his Christian faith. He is unable to be 

dressed; he is wrapped about with sheets 

and bears his peculiar trials with fortitude. 

One man was convalescing from typhoid 

fever, and another who had had trouble 

with his eye and knee was improving. Mr. 

C, who had been afflicted with asthma and 

other diseases had, after a hemorrhage, died. 

A Swiss German, a decorative painter, had 

also died. An aged paralytic patient said 

he felt he was more comfortable and could 

get about with less difficulty than formerly. 

In the Lying-in-Ward were four mothers 

and four babies. 

In passing through the Wards we found 

pleasant tokens of the visits of the Flower 

Mission, which were cherished by the invalids.



We found four wee, plump babies in the 

nursery, but there was another baby seventeen 

months old that interested us greatly. 

She was in the Lower Cross Ward, where 

her mother is confined to her bed with an 

internal tumor that causes her so much 

pain that she can only sleep when under 

the influence of medicine. The mother 

was sitting up in bed, fondling her baby, 

who had been brought to the Hospital by 

her brother, Frank Jischkie, twelve years 

old. He is the oldest of five children, and 

since his mother has been sick at the Hospital 

he has worked for and taken care ,of 

the others, while his father has been out at 

work. The hot cover of the stove rolled 

over and burnt the leg of his baby sister 

so badly that every day it has to be dressed 

by the H6spital nurse, and Frank brings it 

up from Lyell avenue in his arms and carries 

it home again. The sore caused by 

the burn is about as large as a silver twenty-five 

cent piece. A kind lady has promised 

to send a baby carriage for the use of 

the little baby, and a woman has come to 

Frank's home to take care of the children, 

and Frank is delighted with the prospect of 

attending school once more. The suffering 

mother, the burnt baby, and kind 

brother, all interested us. 

Another baby child is little Sarah, a colored 

girl from the Orphan Asylum, who 

has a curvature of the spine and will probably 

be a cripple for life. She keeps in 

bed all the time. She wore a plaster of 

Paris jacket, but it made her uncomfortable, 

and as she has a sore back, it has been 

removed. We found her with four dolls 

and a toy dog beside her. 

Rosa was up, dressed and with her scarlet 

knitting work made a very pretty picture; 

Minnie Bryant also was knitting. Katy H., 

the girl who, more than two years ago, was 

so badly burnt by carrying hot ashes, is so 

well that she has left the Hospital, her 

burn entirely healed, and she has found a 


pleasant home with an uncle in Medina. 

Terrance is improving and says he his going 

to live in the New Children's Pavilion. 

Max Kraus has left his rolling chair and 

can walk a little without crutches; he was 

quite earnest we should note his improvement; 

he still wears the harness on his 

head and is a funny looking little boy with 

this strange arrangement about his head. 

Lorenz Fisher, who has rheumatism in the 

knees, is better; he has left his cot and 

walks about slowly; his limbs are still bent. 

His trouble was caused by getting wet on 

his birthday, the 19th of June; he took a 

cold and it settled in his knees. Not a 

very nice way of celebrating his birthday, 

was it ? Freddy Lyons is now confined to 

his cot. Tommy Heeney does not change 

much. George Tanner, sixteen years old, 

is a new patient. He crushed his leg between 

the elevator and the wall in Hamilton 

& Mathews' store; he keeps his bed 

but is doing well. A boy who was run 

over on the railroad, injured his leg and 

arm so much that amputation of both was 

necessary, but this did not save him; he 

died soon after the operations. These are 

the kind of children for whom the Pavilion 

was built. Who will help us pay for it? 

Our New Pavilion. 

The Children's Pavilion is now making 

a fine appearance, and the work is progressing 

rapidly. The extension is nearly finished; 

the tucking almost done. On the 

8th of October the workmen were putting 

on the last coat of plastering, and the next 

week the carpenters expected to commence 

finishing the building, putting on the windows 

and door frames. 

We are indebted to Mr. A. Bristol for a 

donation of three register faces for ventilating 

the engineers' sleeping room. 

Our thanks are due to the Steam Gauge 

and Lantern Co. for gratuitously repairing 

our steam gauge.



Lawrence Barron, for one brick $ .25 

Terrance Martin, for one brick .25 

Mrs. W. E. Hoyt, for Baby Hoyt 5 00 

Rena Dinkelspiel, Henry Stern, Delia 

Adler and Rosa Landsberg 1 33 

Henry F. Leiter, Eugene H. Leiter 

and Myron H. Leiter, each one 

brick .75 

Miss H. J. Paul, for one brick .25 

Margaret Wright, four bricks 1 00 

Margaret Louise Whitrley, Santa Bar- 

. bara, Cal., for one brick .25 

Frederika Storrs Bliss, Albany, for 

one brick .25 

Mrs. L. L. Hayden, Bath 5 00 

Susie E. Sill, Sodus Point, two bricks, .50 

Nanette R. Delano, Niagara Falls, for 

two bricks, which she earned .50 

Earned by Mabel Moser, Minnie Peck, 

Maida Finding, Alice McArthur, 

Irene Allen and Katy Hoyt, for four 

bricks 1 00 

Mrs. A. B. Kim ball, Haverill, Mass., 

aged 84 5 00 

Libbie R. Messenger, for one brick... .25 

Florence M. Messenger, for one brick, .25 

Receipts for the month. $ 21 83 

Previously acknowledged... .$1,238 64 




Mathews, 9(i Spring street, the Treasurer of 


the Hospital. 

» 



By Mrs. Strong, 

Mrs. A. F. Mansel, St. Paul, Minn... $5 00 

By Mrs. John Brewster, 

Mrs. Ayrault 5 00 

Mrs. John Durand 5 00 

By Mrs. W. E. Hoyt, 

Mrs. J. H. Howe. 5 00 

By Mrs. Perkins, 

Mrs. S. J. Andrews 5 00 

Miss Lois Whitney 5 00 

Mrs. George Smith, New York 5 00 

By Mrs. Louis Chapin, 

Mrs. David Hoyt 5 00 

Dr. Mallory 5 00 

Mrs. Nannie Howell 5 00 

By Mrs. Josiah Anstice, 

M. F. Reynolds 5 00 

Mrs. J. Anstice 5 00 

By Mrs. D. Andwers, 

Mr. Myron G. Peck 5 00 

DONATION ON BILLS. 

J. H. Chamberlin, on Empire Hose 30 35 

Mrs. W. H. PERKINS, Treasurer. 


Donation XHiy. 

The managers of the City Hospital 

would announce that their Annual Donation 

Reception will be held at Powers' 

building, on Thursday the ioth of December. 

They make this announcement early 

that no other entertainments may be planned 

for the day that will interfere with the 

success of this festival, on the receipts of 

which they largely rely for meeting the 

current expenses of the Hospital. Further 

particulars will be given in the November 

number of the REVIEW and in the city 

papers. 

Funds for the New Pavilion. 

The following letters indicate the interest 

taken by some of the little folks in the 

New Pavilion. We are glad so many are 

sending us bricks. Keep on sending them. 

My Dear L.: 

I take pleasure in sending you the enclosed 

one dollar, for "Bricks'* in the 

"Children's Pavilion." This money has 

been earned by the following members of 

my Sunday School class at Plymouth 

church : Mable Mose, Minnie Peck, 

Maida Finding, Alice McArthur, Irene 

Allen and Katy Hoyt. We hope to make 

further contributions to your fund. 

Sincerely yours, 

Monday, Sept. 28th. M. S. P. 

NIAGARA FALLS, LS, N. Y.,) 

Sept. 27th, i, 1885. f 

Nannette R. Delano sends to Mrs. 

Mathews fifty cents, which she has earned, 

for two bricks for the Children's Pavilion. 


ROCHESTER, N. Y., Sept. 1,1885. 

Number in Hospital Sept. 1st, 1885.... 93 


" births during month 3 141 

Number discharged during. month 47 


" remaining Oot. 1st, 1885. 88 141


Donations for September. 

Miss Hodges, reading matter. 

Mrs. Delano, reading matter. 

Mr. George B. Chase, reading matter. 

Mrs. A. S. Hamilton, reading matter. 

Mrs. James Wolcott, reading matter. 

Mrs. Howard, reading matter, second-hand 

clothing and fancy articles. 

Mrs. Wilcox, reading matter. 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews" old cotton. 

Mrs. George Weldon, old cotton and secondhand 

clothing. 

Mrs. Dr. Little, second-hand clothing. 

Mrs. Sarah Bragg, tidy. 

Mrs. John H. Rochester, basket of peaches. 

Mrs. Mary John, fruit and vegetables. 

Miss Danforth, Dears. 

Mrs. J. H. Brewster, pears. 

Mrs. L. H. Allen, plums. 

Mrs. A. G. Yates, pears and crab apples. 

Mrs. William Corning, crab apples and 

flowers. 

Mrs. Dr. Montgomery, half bushel of pears. 

Mrs. G. W. Mitchell, baby's toys and clothing. 

Steam Gauge and Lantern Company, repair- 

Theodore F. Aldrich, six bunches of 

bananas. 

Mrs. William Pitkin, omitted by mistake in 

July report, two bushels of cherries. 


SEPTEMBER, 1885, 

Mrs. F.Wilaon.Albion, by Miss Hebbard,$ .50 

Miss C. Smalley, by Miss Nellie Pixley.. .62 

Mrs. Ira Wilder, Charlotte, by Mrs. S. H. 

Terry 1 00 

Mrs. Ida L. Engler, 50 cents; Mrs. A. T. 

Kimball, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. 

Territory, 50 cents; Mrs. Charles 

Martin, Montreal, 50 cents, by Mrs. 

M. Strong 1 50 

G. C. Buell & Co., adv., $5.00; William 

Eastwood,adv., $5.00; Geddes & Co., 

adv., $5.00; Rochester Savings Bank, 

adv., $15.00, by Mrs. M.M. Mathews, 30 00 

Mrs. J. B. Adams, Geneseo, 50 cents; 

Miss F. H. Bryan, Philadelphia, $1; 

Mrs. J. Goddard, Tork, 50 cents; 

Hamilton & Mathews, adv., $5.0t>; 

Miss S. P. Mathew, Sodus Point, 50 

cents: Mrs. R. Messenger, 62 cents; 

Mrs. W. C. Storrs, Santa Barbara, 

Cal., $1.50; Mrs. S. Williams, Chicago, 

$2.50; sale of papers, five 

cents ; by Treasurer 12 17 


96 Spring street. 

Rise to your duty, 

This is the hour. 

•»» 

Old cotton, second-hand clothing and reading 

matter thankfully received at the Hospital. 


At the Rochester City Hospital, September 

2, 1885, from Railroad accident,' George Estelman, 

aged 13 years. 


7. 1885, of Phthisis Pulmonalis, Catherine 

Matthews, aged 25 years. 


14, 1885, of Nephritis, Jacob Woulschlager, 



20th, 1885. from shock following; operation for 

Scirrhus, Mrs. James Malette, of Geneva, aged 

53 years. 


25, 1885, of Debility, Mrs. Mary A. Paddock, 

of Sodus, aged 70 years. 


28,1885, of Senile Decay, Mrs. Mary James, 


Officious. 

The fearful threats which some make 

of what they would do, etc., are doublydroll 

and ridiculous when the threatened 

individual happens to be present 

without their knowing it. Anecdotes 

similar to the following of General 

Grant have been told of the Duke of 

Wellington and several incognito kings, 

but the similiarity does not make this 

one less probable or less amusing : 

One of General Grant's visits to the 

Catskills, it is related that he wandered 

away from his companions one day, 

stretched himself beside a trout-stream 

in one of the shady nooks somewhere 

in Shandaken. He was half-napping, 

when a stalwart native broke in upon 

him with stern address. It was the 

owner of that trout-brook, confident 

that he had caught a trespasser upon 

his lawful rights. 

" Git out! " cried the sturdy mountaineer. 

" Git out o here quick, or I'll 

give you such a duckin' as ye won't 

soon forgit!" 

" But my dear sir, I "— 

The general did not finish. 

" Git, I say! " quoth the Ulster landlord. 

"Git. and don't let me ketch 

ye snupin' round here agin, or I'll 

thrash ye—thrash ye, sir! I'd thrash 

ye even if ye was Genril Grant hisself!"


The twinkle that crept into the trespasser's 

eye did not tend to mollify the 

furious brook-owner. 

" I'll find out ye name and prosecute 

ye. Ye needn't be a-smilin'; I kin find 

it out easy enough ye'll see." 

" Oh, don't go to too much trouble, 

my friend," was the distressing reply, 

" I'll tell you my name myself. It is 

Grant, — General Grant,—and if I've 

intruded, I really beg your par "— 

The old soldier was talking to air; 

that countryman had vanished. 

But nevertheless he eventually recovered 

in time to hold out, as an inducement 

to summer boarders from 

New York, the manifold attractions of 

Grant Hill, now one of the most popular 

trout-streams in that mountain district. 

««Father's Old Boots are There ! " 

Many a picture of moving pathos appears 

in the dark gallery of drunkenness. 

We have seen but few more 

touching ones than this from the pen 

of Mrs. M. A. Kinder. She describes 

little Benny, the son of a drunken 

father, sitting in a room with his 

mother and little sister. By looking 

at his sad and thoughtful face one 

would have taken him to be ten years 

of age, yet he was but six. No 

wonder. For four years this almost 

baby had been used to seeing a drunken 

father go in and out of the cottage. 

He scarcely remembered anything from 

him but cruelty and abuse, especially 

towards his kind and loving mother. 

But now he is dead ! The green sod 

had lain on his grave a week or so, but 

the terrible effects of his conduct were 

not buried with him. The poor children 

would start with a shudder at every uncertain 

step on the walk outside, and 

at every hesitating hand upon the latch. 

On the day mentioned above, Benny's 

mother was getting dinner. 

' Will my little son go to the wood 

shed and get mother a few sticks to 

finish boiling the kettle? 

' I don't like to go to the wood-shed, 

mamma,' said Benny, looking down. 


' Why, my son ? ' 

' Because there is a pair of father's 

old boots on the beam out there, and I 

don't like to see them. 

'Why do you mind the old boots, 

Benny, any more than you do your 

father's old coat and hat upstairs ?' 

' Because,' said Benny, the tears filling 

his blue eyes, ' they look as if they 

wanted to kick me.' 

O the dreadful after-influence of a 

drunken father to innocent children! 

what an awful memory to bear through 

life !—Richmond Christian Advocate. 

Illuminated Nest of the Baya. 

The nest is in itself a beautiful and 

ingenious piece of work. The upper 

portion is divided into two chambers, 

one for Mother Baya while she is sitting, 

and one for Father Baya when he has 

earned the right to rest by having provided 

his wife with food. The lower 

portion of the nest is a general living 

room for the whole family as soon as 

the little ones have grown strong 

enough to leave the upper chamber. 

Here is a home that might well be all 

that the most exacting could require, 

but having provided for creature comfort, 

the baya has yet to gratify its 

sense of the beautiful. The little mother 

is hardly settled down when the male 

bird, having put the finishing touches 

to the nest, darts forth and returns with 

a fresh lump of clay, which he affixes 

to the inner wall of the nest. Then 

quickly away again to capture one of 

the living sparks of which there are 

myriads in the tropics. The fire-fly is 

secured to the lump of clay, and lights 

up the little home with its phosphorescent 

glow. Another and another are 

added, until the patient little mother 

has light enough to cheer her during 

the long dark night. After that one or 

more of the animated diamonds is fastened 

to the exterior, there to glitter 

and flash for the delection of the outside 

world, for the baya is no selfish 

lover of art. He does not lock his 

treasures up in his gallery, but is willing 

to share his enjoyment with all.


And what pleasure he does give can be 

easily comprehended by a slight effort 

of the imagination, which has only to 

picture a quaint little hut with overhanging 

eaves nestling in the gloom 

of a tangled tropical forest. From the 

eaves gently wave the gayiy illuminated 

bird-nest lanterns, shedding a soft, 

happy home light on the poor little 

Cottage, which loses its wretchedness 

for the time being, and is transformed 

into a fairy palace.—Harper s Magazine. 

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is 

not long, and if the gate be straight it 

opens into endless life. 

A little girl sent out to hunt eggs 

came back unsuccessful, complaining 

that " lots of hens were standing round 

doing nothing." 



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VOL. XX11. ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 16, 1885. No. 4 

A Gem. 

If a pilgrim has been shadowed 

By a tree that I have nursed; 

If a cup of clear cold water 

1 have raised to lips athirst; 

If I've planted one sweet flower 

By an else too barren way; 

If I've whispered in the midnight 

One sweet word to tell of day; 

If, in one poor bleeding bosom, 

I a woe-swept chord have stilled; 

If a dark and restless spirit 

I with hope of Heaven have filled; 

If I've made for life's hard battle- 

One faint heart grow warm and strong, 

Then my God ! I thank Thee—bless Thee 

For the precious gift of song. 

—MAEY LOUISE CHITWOOD. 

I have been benefited by praying for 

others; for by making an errand to God 

for them I have gotten something for 

yself.—Rutherford. 

m 


The Rochester Female Charitable 

Society. 

The annual meeting of this Society was 

held on Tuesday>afternoon, November 3d, 

in the Guild room of St. Luke s church. 

The opening devotional exercises were conducted 

by the Rev. Dr. J. Shaw, and the 

following officers elected: 

Trustees—Mr. Wm. N. Sage, Mr. Oscar 

Craig, Mr. Wm. H. Ward, Mr. Frederick A. 

Whittlesey, Mr. George E. Mumford, Mr. M. 

F. Reynolds. 

President—Mrs. Oscar Craig. 

First Vice-President—Mrs. Freeman Clarke. 

Second Vice-President—Mrs. W. C. Rowley. 

Third Vice-President—Mrs. Adolphus Morse. 

Secretary—Mrs. Arthur Robinson. 

Treasurer—Mrs. H. P. Brewster. 

Several new districts were arranged and 

additional collectors and visitors appointed.



The following report, being the sixtythird 

annual report, was read by the Secretary, 

Mrs. Arthur Robinson: 

LADIES.—With the close of another year, we 

have the same story to tell, of our efforts to do 

good as we have had opportunity ; remembering 

the words of Christ, " Inasmuch as ye have 

done it unto one of the least of these my 

brethren, ye have done it unto me." The winter 

was a severe one, work was difficult to 

secure, and with the added discouragement of 

sickness or accident, many families have 

looked to our Society for aid and we have rejoiced 

in being able, often, to bridge over the 

season of disheartenment, until health and 

strength were restored, wherewith to begin 

anew the battle of life. The gratitude so frequently 

expressed for assistance rendered, is 

very cheering and in almost every instance, 

we find a willingness manifested to return to 

self dependence, as soon as health will'permit. 

Owing to the growth of our city, it has been 

found necessary to enlarge the field of our 

labors, and eight new districts have been added 

to our already long list. Our monthly meetings 

have been well attended; an average of 

thirty-three being present each month. In the 

retrospect of the past year, we have to mourn 

over the vacancies made by death in our membership. 

In November last, died Mrs. Nathaniel 

T. Rochester, after an illness of many 

months, borne most patiently and trustfully. 

Sanctified by trial and affliction, her life had 

been hid with Christ in God, for many years, 

and her ministrations to the sick and sorrowing 

have made her memory blessed. In January, 

after a long life of usefulness, Mrs. Chester 

Dewey entered into rest. Like Mrs. Rochester, 

she" was connected with this Society in 

its earliest days, and her interest in it never 

abated. Her life was singularly rounded and 

complete and like a sheaf of wheat, fully ripe, 

she was gathered into the garner of the Lord. 

In February, we were again called on to part 

with one of our number, Mrs. George T. Whitney, 

who had been stricken down by disease in 

the midst of her great usefulness. With a 

heart full of sympathy, willing hands "and an 

open purse, she did with her might what 

her hands found to d. In October, Mrs. 

Dr. Armstrong, fell asleep in Jesus. She 

was long interested in this Society both as 

directress and visitor, until increasing years 

and feebleness caused her to lay aside her 

active part in its duties. Such lives as these 

need no comment. They are "living epistles 

known and read of all men." Many of our 

number have been called to pass through the 

waters of affliction, during the past year, and 

their own experience of sorrow will make 

them more than ever tender in their, sympathies 

with the widows and the fatherless. It 

is with sincere regret that we are called upon 

to note the retirement of our beloved president, 

Mrs. Maltby Strong. She began active work 

in this Society in 1835, and held the various 

positions of collector, visitor, directress and 

vice-president, until 1859, when she became its 

president. For twenty-six years the has most 

faithfully and acceptably filled this office; and 

while we thank her for all she has been to the 

Society, we feel that we shall greatly miss her 

wise counsel and gentle presence in the direction 

of our meetings. After nearly fifty years 

of service, she can never lose her interest in 

the Society, and we know that we shall still 

have her sympathy in every good work. In 

entering upon another year, we would crave 

the generosity of those who would be blessed 

in remembering God's poor. With the extending 

of our boundaries, more money will be required 

to carry on the work, and as we have 

no expenses save the trifling ones for printing 

and postage, the donations go directly to the 

object for which they were given. 

We would acknowledge with gratitude the 

kindness of St. Luke's church in allowing us a 

place of meeting, and to the press of the city 

and to Mr. Ezra R. Andrews for favors received. 

To all who have aided us in any way we 

offer our sincere thanks. 

Respectfully submitted. 

JANE H. ROBINSON, Secretary. 

ROCHESTER, NOV. 3, 1885. 

This was followed by the report of the 

Treasurer, Mrs. H. P. Brewster. 

Cash on hand November 1st, 1884 .. $3,382 31 

Individual donations 1,788 75 

Interest on investments 550 00 

Interest on investments in hands of 

Trustees .• 426 62 

Interest on Pancost legacy 81 20 

Interest on Woodbury legacy 10 00 

Interest on bank deposits 103 52 

Ward collections and membership fees 528 82 

Church collections 251 06 

$7,123 28 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

Paid orders $4,638 50 

Paid dry goods 89 37 

Paid printing 14 25 

Expenses of appeal 13 20 

Stationery, postage and express 5 91 

Cash on hand November 1st, 1885 2,361 05 

$7,122 28 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews, Secretary of the 

Board of Lady Managers of the Rochester 

City Hospital, then read the following 

twenty-second annual report of the City 

Hospital: 

LADiiis: Another year of service, the twenty-second, 

is ended, and the Lady Managers 

present to-day the record, with grateful thanks 

to our Heavenly Father for any good accomplished, 

any suffering relieved, or any hearts 

comforted. Our aim is perfection, but as it is 

never reached here below, we sorrow for any 

mistakes made, or any good left undone. In 

view of the necessit ies which arise, the Managers 

are of times •' entangled and shut in," not 

knowing which way to turn, when the command 

of God given to Moses, " Speak unto the


children of Israel that they go forward " comes 

to us, and though a wall seemingly as impassable 

as the Red sea is before us, depending 

upon God for aid and strength, we " go forward." 

" Hitherto the Lord hath helped us," 

raising up friends, who by their liberal and 

substantial gifts have enabled us to prosecute 

this work. Shall we doubt Him now in our 

great necessity? 

Death has been very busy during the past 

year. Dr. H. F. Montgomery, President of the 

Medical and Surgical Staff, died November 8, 

1884, after a continuous service of more than 

twenty years in the Hospital. 

Mrs. N. T. Rochester, a devoted Manager, 

one of the original committee appointed by 

your board, after many months of sickness, 

peacefully fell asleep November 19, 1884. 

Mrs. George F. Danforth was chosen a Manager 

in 1865. After several years of faithful 

work, she was prevented by sickness from regular 

attendance at our meetings, but she lost 

not her interest. After a brief illness, she died 

January 25, 1885. 

Mrs. George J. Whitney was elected a member 

in 1867. Her executive ability, her energy 

in devising ways to forward this work, united 

with her generosity, rendered her invaluable. 

Mrs Whitney's health failing, she spent a year 

abroad, but returned October, 1884, and lingered 

with much suffering until February 26,1885. 

By the death of Mrs. M. A. Gilman, June 6, 

1885, the Hospital sustained a great loss. For 

five years she had been the Recorder, unselfish, 

untiring she won the respect and love of all. 

"Faithful unto death," what higher praise 

can be bestowed ? Who can reap a richer reward? 

One laid aside from active work, pining on a 

sick bed—waiting to do her Master s bidding— 

"waiting with a hope that cannot fail," still 

another watching by a loved companion in feeble 

health. What wonder if our courage fails; 

our hearts sink with such a record of sorrow ? 

But never has there been more need of energetic 

action. The Hospital full to overflowing, 

and a treasury more than empty, exigencies 

continually arising, we hope the benevolent 

and generous friends will give freely of their 

substance. " While we have time, let us do 

good unto all men." 

Medical Staff—Dr. W. S. Ely, Dr. E. V. 

Stoddard, Dr. Charles A. Dewey. 

Surgical Staff—Dr. H. H. Langworthy, Dr. 

David Little, Dr. J. F. Whitbeck. 

Oculist and Aurist—Dr. C. E. Rider. 

Assistants—Dr. William A. Oliver, Dr. L. H. 

Smith. 

Recorder—H. B. Williams. 

Matron—Miss Frances E. Hebbard. 

Supervising Nurse—Miss Markham. 

There were remaining: 

In the Hospital October 1, 1884 68 

Received during the year 554 

Births 34 

Total 651 


Of these were discharged 

Recovered 359 

Improved 142 

Unimproved 10 

Transferred 1 

Died 51 

Remaining October 1, 1885 88 

Total 651 

The nationalities represented were the United 

States 308. Germany 59, Ireland 44. England 

59, Canada 82, Poland 6, Italy 5, Holland, 

Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland 

and Austria. One hundred and nineteen 

have been supported entirely or in part by 

charity. Total number of days supported 8,425. 

The Training School for Nurses started September, 

1880, has had applications from 278 

persons for admission, 86 during the past year. 

There have been 31 members of the School 

during the year. Graduated, 7; probationers 

not accepted, 3; left on account of sickness of 

sister, 1; dismissed, 1; number now remaining, 

19; number having done nursing away, 18. 

This portion of our work, while expensive, we 

cannot dispense with, for the sake of the Hospital 

and the community at large. We regret 

we cannot supply all the applications for nurses 

for the sick outside. 

Sufficient funds having been given to warrant 

the commencement of the Children's Pavilion, 

plans and specifications kindly furnished 

by Mr. Church, architect, ground was broken 

and the building commenced in July. The 

contract having been given to Mr. W. H. Gorsline 

July 31, 1885, the corner-stone was laid 

with appropriate exercises. Prayer was offered 

by Rev. Dr. Riggs and addresses by the Mayor, 

Dr. Anderson and Dr. Anstice, Rev. Mr. Mann 

and Rev. Mr. Adams, all commending the 

work and rejoicing that we can look upon the 

realization of this so-much-desired event. 

There have been thirty-four children in the 

Hospital under fifteen years, and thirty-four 

infants. Truly this is a needed work. 

The Mite Box fund, suggested by Mrs. G. J. 

Whitney, and which has furnished funds for 

many necessities, is still quietly at work, 

though having lost some of its first novelty. 

The Sunday services are supplied by the students 

of the Theological Seminary and Young 

Men's Christian Association. 

Our grateful acknowledgements we tender 

to all that have aided this work, to the Democrat 

and Chronicle, Union and Advertiser, 

Herald and Post-Express, for their liberality in 

allowing us the use of their columns. 

Our annual donation will be held Thursday 

and Friday, December 10th and 11th, in Powers' 

building, Mr. Powers having given permission 

so kindly, as heretofore for many years. 

The HOSPITAL REVIEW still presents monthly 

the records of the Hospital work, and will contain, 

as well as the daily papers, a more extended 

notice of the donation days, which we 

hope will prove to be days full of good deeds 

of charity, gladdening the hearts of the Mana 

gere. MRS. M. M. MATHEWS, 

Corresponding Secretary.



Nature a Physician. 

A TRUE NARRATIVE. 

During the winter of the small-pox, especially 

in its mitigated type, the varioloid, 

prevailed extensively in the City of S. in the 

State of N— Y—. 

At that season I was residing temporarily in 

that place, pursuing my collegiate studies, aud 

in the early part of January —— was attacked 

by the epidemic in its milder form. The premonitory 

symptoms foretold that I was to 

have no ordinary siege; and, accordingly, 

having made ample arrangements for a long 

and severe sickness, I took to my bed, after 

calling in Dr. McD., an old and respectable 

physician. He prescribed the customary medicines; 

the disease had its " run " as usual, the 

red spots on the skin, by which it first indicated 

itself, becoming veritable pustules, and 

these enlarging until they bad arrived at a i 

sufficient state of fullness to be termed small 

pyramids, dotting the countenance m multitudes, 

and giving to it the appearance of anything 

else rather than what, by an extravagant 

figure, has been called 

" The human face divine." 

It was at this stage of the disease, known, I 

believe, among the faculty, as the crisis, that 

an episode was enacted, unexpected alike by 

me and my worthy doctor. 

My boarding-house was about one-fourth of 

a mile from the College. My rooms were in 

the second story of the house, and were connected 

by a door opening from a small bedroom 

occupied by me. into a larger front one 

where my "chum" slept, who performed the 

officeR of nurse and watcher. For several days 

prior to the 15th of January, I had labored under 

a harmless, and, to me, a very pleasant delirium, 

the usual attendant of variola; and, 

upon this night, I had conceived the fancy 

that my chum and myself had gone to the village 

of S., two miles distant, to visit a caravan 

of wild animals; that J. had become separated 

from him, and was anxiously endeavoring to 

find him. Under this idea, 1 found myself in 

the middle of the night looking out of a front 

window, and carefully spelling by the moonlight 

a familiar gilt shop-sign on the opposite 

side of the street. It suddenly occurred to me 

that 1 was in the city of S. and had a clue to 

my lost companion. 

This chum of mine would play cards, being 

particularly fond of whist; and as he was 

much more partial to the books of that game 

than to his College books, he frequently played 

me the trick of absenting himself, and resorting 

to a second story room of the College, to 

pursue with others his favorite amusement. 

Having him and that room in view, I cautiously 

opened the front chamber, and walked quietly 

and stealthily through the upper hall to the 

stairs, and creeping down these, passed along 

the lower hall and out of the front door into 

the street. 

The winter was one of unusual severity. 

The mercury ranged from zero downward, and 

not unfrequently indicated a temperature Of 

even twenty degrees below that point. The 

snow, too, of that season, as storm after storm 

had bedded it up in layers of from six to 

twelve inches, was so high in City-streets as to 

hide from the view of persons passing along 

one walk those on the opposite one. Of that 

winter, the month of January was the coldest, 

and of that month the night of the 15th was 

especially severe. 

The bright and new moon looked forth from 

cloudless heavens '• fretted with golden fire," 

upon a scene of which she, unconscious to herself, 

was the chief artist. In her light, church 

and college and market and House stood out in 

bold relief ; while upon the snowy canvas her 

beams had penciled the shadowy forms of these, 

and the yet more delicate outlines of tree and 

shrub. 

The intense cold had congealed the air into 

myriads of icy crystals, and these sparkled and 

danced joyfully in the moon-beauis ; while the 

incrusted snow reflected back from its surface 

of diamonds the glances of the moon, and the 

tree-tops, whitened by hoar-frost, glistened 

with countless gems in her bright light. Twas 

the christening of the new-born Year ; and 

Day and Night, Sun and Moon, Frost and 

Snow witnessed it, as in Nature's own temple 

hoary Winter, attired in robes of vestal whiteness, 

bathed Young Time in this flood of 

mingled glories; and from afar, there came 

floating upon the still air, the strains of responsive 

music from the distant orbs, not one of 

which 

" But in his motion like an angel sings, 

Still quiring to the young eyed cherubim." 

Having reached the sidewalk. I turned into 

the street; imagining that the building next 

north of my residence had shortly before burnt 

up, and to avoid what I supposed hot bricks on 

the walk, (I seemed to see them as realities,) I 

went into the street. This delusion originated 

thus: My room-mate, who at that time was 

soundly sleeping in the room I had left, and 

within a few steps of where I must have 

passed in going to the door, on retiring had incautiously 

placed his woollen stockings too near 

the stove. These had become burnt; and the 

odor being inhaled had suggested to the mind 

the idea which induced me to leave the walk. 

Over the snow, my feet protected only by cotton 

socks ; through the air—it was a " nipping 

and an eager" one, and its bite much 'shrewder 

' than that in the cold of which Hamlet and 

his two friends shivered, as they stood in the 

middle of a like night upon the platform at 

Elsinore, watching for his father's ghost; 

through the thousand frosty needles which 

penetrated my night dress, pricking and stinging 

at every pore; on I wandered, along the 

middle of the street, and up to the College 

gate. Opening this. I passed along the yard to 

the front steps, and while ascending these I 

slipt, fell and struck my forehead. The blow 

seemed to awaken me, and 1 became partially 

aware of the dangers of my situation. Recovering, 

I mounted the steps, entered through 

the front-door, and passing along the hall, ascended 

the stairs to room No. —. Rap! rap I 

rap ! Not a noise, or stir, or whisper, or breath


was heard from within ; when from without, 

a "°» repeated knock awoke the inmates. 

Who can it be?" was asked in a timorous 

whisper; and at last a voice, courageous in 

spite of ghost or spirit, called with trembling 

accents, "Who's there?" and the form without 

in frozen words replied, "It's I." "It 

can't be , he is sick a-bed;" and speculating 

thus and upon the propriety of giving 

admittance, two being opposed, fearing contagion, 

and one in favor, who prevailed, they 

reluctantly opened the door. Bent and stiffened, 

white as the snow without (for the blood 

had been driven by the cold back to its channels 

toward the heart,) trembling and-shivering, 

there I stood, having scarcely left my bed 

during the previous two weeks. By this time, 

my faculties had returned. I was put into the 

bed, my feet rubbed, and heated fire-bricks 

laid against them. I soon dropped into a 

sweet sleep, and was awaked by the arrival of 

my physician. On being called, he stated he 

would be over and see me, though his visit 

would be of little benefit, as I could not survive 

the exposure of the night The result 

however proved otherwise, for after a quiet 

rest until morning, when my clothes were 

brought from the boarding-house, I walked 

home without difficulty, and from that day 

was able to be about, and in three days was as 

well as usual. 

My worthy doctor called often (not professionally) 

to see me ; and, during one of his 

visits, related an instance not unlike the one 

here narrated. The case was that of a woman, 

over whom in one of the last stages of fever, 

a council had been held, which declared she 

nik'ht not live until morning. While in this 

condition, her watcher had fallen asleep ; when 

in a state of delirium the patient arose, went 

to a well, and drank from the bucket very 

freely. She was there found, taken back to 

bed, in which she perspired profusely, and by 

morning the fever had abated, and she had 

entered upon a state of convalescence. 

It is not a little remarkable, as showing the 

power of imagination and fear over health, 

that of the dramatis personal of what may not 

inaptly be termed this MIDWINTER-NIGHT'S 

DREAM, the persons whose dread of disease 

would have left me to perish in the cold, were 

some weeks after seized with the epidemic ; 

while the third escaped, although by his asiduous 

attentions he had exposed himself much 

more than the others. He is now a skilful 

and successful physician in the City of New 

York, and should this narrative ever reach his 

eye, he will recognize in himself the Good 

Samaritan, and in his companions, perchance, 

the Priest and Levite of that night. 

Of course, I leave it for others to account for 

the singularly harmless and beneficial results 

of the night-excursion; I am neither physician 

nor philosopher. But I may be allowed 

to say from that night's experience, that 

though it be true that " Man is the Interpreter 

and Minister of Nature," it is none the less 

true, that she sometimes takes upon herself 

the execution of her kind offices, and then, as 

if in requital for his services. NATURE IS A 

MINISTER TO MAN. 


JfAarptE works -* .;. , . 

y these fortuitous and rkndom strokes, 

Performing- such inimitable feats, 

As Art with all her rules can never reach." 

S. H. T. 

St. Luke's Flower Mission. 

For some eight yeairs past the young ladies 

of the Flower Mission have never failed to 

carry each week to the City Hospital such 

flowers as they have had at their disposal to 

cheer the inmate?. Other institutions have 

shared in the flowers when there have been 

enough. At the annual meeting, held in the 

Guild room, the following resolution was 

adopted in recognition of the special liberality 

of one of our well-known florists, who has so 

uninteruptedly remembered their work: 

Resolved, That the hearty thanks of the Flower 

Mission be given to White Brothers for their very 

generous donations of flowers every week during the 

entire summer, and that it has been a genuine pleasure 

to the members of the mission to be the almoners of the 

floral bounty of White Brothers and other cheerful 

givers to the sick and suffering at the City Hospital 

and other institutions. 

Although the young ladies who carry on 

this work are members of St. Luke's Guild, 

they are doing service for our general charitalbe 

institutions, and would be glad to be the 

means through which any of our citizens could 

gladden the sick and suffering with such flowers 

as they may have to give. The weekly 

meetings.to arrange the flowers are held on 

Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, in the Guild 

roem. in the rear of St. Luke's Church, and 

any flowers will be thankfully received then 

and there. Arrangements are also made by 

which flowers will be called for between 9 

o'clock and 10 o'clock on that day at any place 

designated, either regularly or whenever there 

may be flowers to spare, due notice having 

been sent to any of the officers named below : 

Miss Anna J. Anderson, 170 Exchange street. 

Miss Kate R. Montgomery. 160 Spring street. 

MissJElizabeth F. Reid, Strathallan park. 

Miss Mary E. Hart, 90 Plymouth avenue. 



Mothers, whose aching hearts, to-night 

Pour forth to God your anguished prayer, 

Missing your darlings from your sight, 

Weeping o'er little pillows bare. 

Poor mothers! only watching now 

Out in the cold, the tiny mound ; 

Yet you are blessed, your darlings fair 

God's sheltering arms have surely found. 

We plead for little wanderers now— 

Nestlings who hear no mother's call— 

Whose homes now lie in ruins low, 

In tender pity aid them all. 

These wanderers are your treasures now, 

God's treasures, given to your care, 

On them your loving gifts bestow, 

Let them your kind compassion share. 

—Churchman, Dec. 20, 1884.




ROCHESTER, N. Y.. NOVEMBER 16. 1885. 

Annual Festival. 

The Donation Festival of the Rochester 

City Hospital will be held in Powers' building, 

Thursday and Friday, December ioth 

and nth, 1885, during the day and evening. 

The lady managers extend to all our citizens 

and those of the neighboring towns, a 

cordial invitation to aid us in this benevolent 

work. We look to the gentlemen as 

well as ladies and children, for encouragement, 

and by their presence and gifts, to 

manifest their interest in this labor of love. 

We hope to see them, one and all. The 

refreshment tables will be furnished with 

the choicest and most palatable viands, 

dainties and luxuries to be produced. Dinner 

will be served from 12 M. ; supper 

from 5 P. M. 

The fancy tables will afford an opportunity 

for the purchase of Christmas and 

New Year gifts, and will be under the 

charge of Miss A. S. Mumford, assisted by 

Mrs. Wm. E. Hoyt, Miss Lois Whitney, 

Mrs. Josiah Anstice and Miss A. E. M. 

Wild. 

Articles for the Doll's Fair may be sent 

io Mrs. A. S. Hamilton, 71 South Washington 

street, or to Mrs. C. H. Babcock, 

151 Plymouth Ave. 

Articles for the Children's Pavilion Table 

will be thankfully received by Mrs. Charles 

H. Angel, 87 East Ave. 

Mrs. Erickson Perkins will have the care 

of the flower and candy table. 

Mrs. Johnson, the care of the Mite Boxes 

— to her the old ones may be returned and 

from her new ones procured 

Subscriptions for the HOSPITAL REVIEW 

may be made to Mrs. Robert Mathews ; 

also, donations for the Children's Pavilion. 

Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins, the treasurer, will 

be happy to secure the cash donations for 

the expenses of the Hospital. The managers 

trust that all will cheerfully give for 

this object donations as they are able. "If 

thou hast much give plenteously; if thou 

hast little do thy diligence gladly to give of 

that, little." 

Donations for any of these objects may 

be sent to any of the lady managers : 

Mrs. M. Strong, Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins, 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews, Mrs. A. D. Smith, 

Mrs. Freeman Clarke, Mrs. D. B. Beach, 

Mrs. J. H. Brewster, Mrs. H. H. Morse, 

Mrs. Clark Johnston, Mrs. H. F. Smith, 

Mrs. Myron Adams, Miss A. S. Mumford, 

Mrs. M. Landsberg, Miss A. E. M. Wild, 

Mrs. L. S. Chapin, Mrs. Wm. E. Hoyt, 

Mrs. J. Anstice, Mrs. A. S. Hamilton, 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, Miss Lois Whitney. 

Donation Days. 

The Managers this year would make a 

special appeal to their patrons, as their 

needs are unusually pressing. Their treasury 

is not only empty, but a debt of about 

$12,000 is resting on the institution. The 

report of the Secretary, given in this number 

of the REVIEW, indicates the work 

done the past year in this institution, but 

it is not the current expenses alone that 

have crippled this charity. 

During the last four years necessary 

work or improvements, such as heating by 

steam, sewage, completing the small pavilions 

needed for isolating patients, the carrying 

on of the the training school for 

nurses, finishing rooms in the dome,, and 

other outlays, that the true interests of the 

Hospital made imperative, have from year 

to year, in addition to the current expenses, 

made heavy drafts upon the treasury, and 

the Managers feel some special efforts must 

be made to liquidate the debt and enable 

them to provide for the current expenses of 

the Hospital. 

Those who have had sickness in their 

own homes know that it is expensive.


Large, well-ventilated appartments are essential 

to the recovery of the sick, but it 

costs a good deal to heat them ; nourishing 

food is strengthening, but it has to be paid 

for ; weak and nervous persons demand a 

great deal of nursing, and many assistants 

are necessary to properly care for the 

invalids. 

In our frequent visits to the institution 

we have been amazed, in case of serious 

accidents, to see how quickly surgeons and 

surgical instruments and appliances, nurses, 

friends and priests could be collected, offering 

their ministries to the sufferer, but 

this is attended with heavy expenses, and 

the community that enjoys such privileges, 

we trust will liberally respond to the call of 

those who conscientiously and carefully seek 

to dispense the bounty of which they are 

made the almoners. The sick and the 

maimed, the helpless and the suffering, 

plead through this charity, and we trust the 

response on Donation Days will be proportionate 

to the needs of the Rochester City 

Hospital. 


In the HOSPITAL REVIEW of February, 

1877, in an article entitled " Work for the 

Little Folks," an appeal was made to the 

children, that they should raise $3,000 and 

endow a children's cot at the City Hospital. 

The amount seemed a large one to be raised 

by the little folks, but the idea pleased 

them. Responses came at once, the children 

in various ways earned money ; they 

held fairs, gave exhibitions, had tables on 

Donation Days, and their friends contributed 

thank and memorial, Easter and 

Christmas offerings. Month by month the' 

endowment fund grew, and at our Donation 

Festival held December 15th, 1883, it was 

completed, and at once bricks were given 

to start a Children's Pavilion Building 

Fund, and a surplus of $41.93 was transferred 

to it from the Children's Cot Fund. 

The little folks' interest in the Hospital 


deepened. They watched for the reports 

of the sick children, visited them in the 

Hospital, and worked so enthusiastically, 

that the Children's Pavilion Fund has 

reached the sum of $1,275.24. 

Donations, from persons who withheld 

their names,, have added to this amount, 

enough with the Cot Fund to place about 

$7,000 at the disposal of the managers 

towards the erection of a Children's Pavilion. 

The last year thirty-four children have 

been inmates of the Hospital. So many 

applied for admission that there was not 

room to receive them, and the managers 

felt that they must either refuse to admit 

children or provide suitable quarters for 

them. It was decided to appropriate the 

$7,000 for this purpose, and in July the 

corner stone of the new Children's Pavilion 

was laid. The work has steadily progressed 

; the building is erected and nearly finished, 

and now we appeal to the children to 

raise funds to complete the means necessary 

to pay for the Pavilion. 

The Children's Pavilion table on Donation 

Day will be in charge of Mrs. Charles 

H. Angel, East avenue, who invites contributions 

from all the children. Mrs. R. 

Mathews will then, as at all times, welcome 

money for bricks, or thank or memorial 

offerings. We have faith that the children 

who have worked so nobly for the Children's 

Cot and Pavilion will not grow weary 

in well doing, but that they will aid us, 

from month to month, with their brick 

money, and on Donation Days make liberal 

offerings. 

We are in great need of mattress protectors 

or tidies and of old bed quilts We 

wish some of the sewing societies in the 

neighboring towns;would procure factory 

and quilt some tidies so that they can be 

washed. Every bed in the Hospital should 1 

have a tidy, and some extra ones are needed 

for use while the soiled ones are being 

washed.


56 THE REVIEW 

Among the Invalids. 

The deserted lawn, the vacant settees, 

and rustling leaves whispered to us of autumn, 

as. on the second of November, we 

passed through the Hospital grounds, on 

our way to the City Hospital. 

In the front room of the building the 

Managers had gathered for their monthly 

meeting, to make arrangements for the 

approaching donation, and to devise plans 

for the advancing of Hospital interests. 

A solemn silence pervaded the south reception 

room, for, in an adjoining apartment 

was a young German, who, but recently 

in the full flush of health and womanly 

vigor, had in a moment been cut 

down and unconsciously was passing 

through the dark valley. Friends had been 

summoned, the priest called, and the mother 

was hastening from her work to gaze in 

helpless agony on her dying daughter. 

Mary Ann Hozelwonder about noon had 

left her home on Skye street, where she 

resided with her mother and brother. She 

had started on the railroad track of the 

Buffalo division of the Central Hudson, to 

pick up coal. When near Hague street, 

she saw a passenger train going west on the 

Central Hudson track, and in seeking to 

avoid this she stepped off the track, became 

confused, and crossed to the parallel track of 

the Rochester and Pittsburgh road, directly 

in front of the yard engine, and before 

the engineer could stop his engine, it had 

struck the poor woman, inflicting fatal 

blows. The base of the skull and the collar 

bone were fractured, and there were other 

injuries. She was taken to the City Hospital, 

but her wounds were beyond the power 

of the surgeon, and without recovering consciousness, 

but gently ministered to by the 

hospital nurses, she breathed her last at 

five o'clock. As we left the Hospital the 

priest was seeking to comfort the heartbroken 

mother. 

We found the Male Surgical Ward full 

to overflowing; a number who properly be- 

longed within it had been forced to take 

cots in the Medical Ward. Only one cot 

was vacant, and that was in reserve, to receive 

any sufferer from accident, or person, 

who unexpectedly required prompt Hospital 

surgical treatment and a bed within the 

Ward. Ten persons in this Ward were 

confined most of the time to their beds. A 

man who had fractured both leg and arm 

was able to sit up a few hours daily. A 

dentist, who, at the Suspension Bridge, at 

Niagara, in getting out of a car, had slipped 

and fractured his shoulder, was doing well. 

A man who had fallen in his wood-shed and 

fractured his hip had been two weeks in the 

Hospital, and had weights attached to his 

limb, One man had burnt his leg by the 

explosion of a kerosene lamp. The wound 

was doing well, but wounds from burns 

always require patience. One patient was 

suffering from a punctured wound, another 

from a stricture, and a third from deformed 

and ulcerated legs. One patient had been 

injured by falling across a fence, but was 

gaining, and able to sit up an hour or two 

every day. A man who swept chimneys 

had fallen from a slippery roof on Prospect 

street, had sustained a compound fracture 

of the left leg and injured his face; his 

head was bandaged and he was suffering 

pain, but very grateful and patient, and evidently 

appreciated Hospital ministries. The 

man whose arm was amputated, in consequence 

of injuries received while coupling 

cars on the West Shore railroad, was so 

much better that he had gone home for a 

short visit. George, the colored paralytic, 

was failing. The man who had injured his 

foot by cutting a corn too deeply, had been 

removed to one of the Pavilions, his wound 

resulting in a gangrenous ulcer. One patient 

had been brought to the Hospital 

badly burnt at a fire; he only lived a short 

time. 

Fifteen patients had cots in the Male 

Medical Ward, but five of these properly 

belonged to the Surgical Ward. Two patients 

were confined to the cots, the one


suffering from eczema was taking a course 

of baths which he felt was benefiting him ; 

the other had a rupture. One man had 

died of an overdose of morphine; he was 

brought to the Hospital in an unconscious 

•condition, and only survived a few hours. 

Several of the inmates were the victims of 

chronic diseases. One was convalescing 

from pneumonia. 

No death occurred in October in the 

Female Medical Wards where fifteen were 

under treatment. Only two of these were 

all the time confined to their beds. The 

sickest patient was a consumptive girl 

whose mind was wandering. Another patient 

had consumption, one had a diseased 

heart, another swollen limbs. 

Fifteen were under treatment in the Female 

Surgical Ward, three of whom kept 

their beds. Two of these were cancer 

patients; the third had an amputated 

femur, the result of a railroad accident at 

Charlotte ; the sufferer was a young girl 

about eighteen, and our sympathies were 

enlisted in seeing one eo young thus 

maimed for life. Tilly had had another 

ulcer cut from her arm, but was confined 

to her bed only two days. A patient with 

a diseased rib was improving. 

The Lying-in Ward had two babies, two 

mothers, and three waiting patients. 


" When will the building be ready ? " said 

one of a group of little folks who were 

gathered around Martin Myers, in the Male 

Surgical Ward, all of whom were suitable 

candidates for the new Children's Pavilion. 

We could not answer the question, but we 

can tell you, dear children, something of 

the seven boys we found in the Male Surgical 

Ward, and we think if you could 

have visited the Hospital when we did, you 

would feel a deep interest in our young 

patients, some of whom we hope will soon 

be well enough to leave us, but others will 

probably be occupants of the new Children's 


Pavilion, for which you are furnishing 

bricks. 

Had you gone with us to the Hospital on 

the afternoon of the second of November, 

and entered the Male Surgical Ward, on 

the first cot at your left you would have 

found a youth who some weeks since 

had a deep flesh wound in his leg, it having 

been lacerated in the elevator in Hamilton 

& Mathews' store. The wound was healing 

and the boy looked bright and cheerful, as 

he was receiving a visit from his mother 

and a young friend. Now will you cross 

to the other side of the Ward with us, and 

take a seat beside the cot of Martin Myers ? 

If you will do so we will introduce you to 

Martin and the four boys who are gathered 

around him, and the fifth who soon joins 

them, coming to them in his rolling chair. 

The latter is your little German friend, Max 

Kraus, who is now without his head harness 

and who is so much improved that he can 

walk a little without crutch or cane ; he still 

wears a plaster of Paris jacket. Martin is 

a new hospital patient ; he is dressed, but 

has his arm in a sling and is lying on the 

outside of his couch ; he is pale and his 

face tells of suffering. He is twelve years 

old. While working in a cabinet shop, his 

sleeve caught in some machinery, and before 

he could get away he had lost two 

fingers and a part of his wrist. At his 

right hand, in a rocking chair with crutches 

near him, sits Thomas Corcoran, a large, 

healthy looking youth who sprained his 

ankle by falling from a wagon. Near by 

stands Tommy Laidlow, another new patient, 

thirteen years old ; his arm is in a 

sling for it was fractured by his being 

thrown out from the Casino, while he was 

attempting to enter. The boy next him is 

Tommy Heeney, whose hip is diseased. 

At the foot of the cot is Max in his rolling 

chair. At the left of Martin's cot is Freddy 

Lyons, whose hip has been lanced and who 

keeps his bed a part of the day. 

Now, what do you suppose these boys do



to amuse themselves ? They have a mouth 

organ, letter cards and dominos. They 

find it is too cold to play out of doors much 

now, for they cannot exercise enough to 

keep themselves warm. They say there is 

a checkerboard up stairs, in the Medical 

Ward, but there are a great many to use 

that, and if some of the children could send 

them one and some jack straws, dissected 

maps, or other games, they would be very 

acceptable. We have lingered so long in 

the Male Surgical Ward that we must now 

hasten away to the Medical Ward, where 

we shall find Lorenz Fisher, fourteen years 

old, who was confined to his bed with inflammation 

of the knees ; he is so much 

better that he now walks about without 

cane or crutch ; but he has taken cold and 

has an inflamed eye which was covered 

with a bandage. Terrance Martin has gone 

home, greatly improved. Minnie Bryant 

has had another sick turn, caused by her 

diseased heart, but she is again better. 

Rose is up and busy with her needle making 

fancy articles. Sarah, our little colored 

baby from the Orphan Asylum, is now able 

to wear a plaster of Paris jacket. She is 

a bright, cunning little thing and spends 

most of her time in her crib, with her playthings 

about her. She has a curvature of 

the spine and is unable to help herself 

much. The hospital surgeon was very 

anxious she should make some effort to 

move herself, so the hospital nurses put 

her on the floor, held up a bed quilt to support 

her and a piece of candy a little distance 

away from her. She wanted the 

candy, and by the aid of the bed quilt 

managed to reach it. We hope gradually 

she may be able to gain strength and exercise 

her limbs. 

These are the class of children for whom 

we need the Pavilion. 

We are very grateful to the Missionary 

ladies of Mt. Hor for their four bed tidies. 

They will be very useful for us. 


Harry C. Moore, for one brick $ .25 

Hugh C. Moore, for one brick .25 

Eric C. Mooie, for one brick .25 

Gaius C. Moore, for one brick .25 

Ruth C. Moore, for one brick .25 

Carolyn Augusta Sherwood, for two 

bricks .50 

Circus performance given by Philip 

Mumford, Alfred Oagood, Joe 

Humphrey, John Bush, Walter 

Mudge, Walter Bush, Ely Buell and 

Willie Wanzer 2.52 

Two bricks from Marguerite Allen 

Ely .50 

A package of bricks collected by 

Herbert Siddons Mann: 

Two from Herbert Siddons Mann .50 

Two from John Franklin Burke .... .50 

Four in memory of Nora Kimbark Siddons 

1.00 

Two from Ransom Noble Kalbfleisch. .50 

One from Ruth Whittemore. ... .25 

One from Sara C. Jackson .25 

Four from John T. Roberts, Jr 1.00 

One from Raymond S. Humburch .25 

Two from Wesley Motley Angle .50 

One from Bert Motley .25 

One from Francis Hagerman Rew... .25 

One in memory of Pearl Fuller .25 

One from Anna Meulendyke .25 

One from James Arthur Meulendyke. .25 

Two from Jeannie Ernisse Crowe.... .50 

One in memory of Otis M. Smith, Jr. .25 

One in memory of Elmer F. Carroll.. .25 

One from Edith Laura Williams .25 

One from Clarence Andrew Wendell. 25 

One from Florence May Palmer .25 

One from Jena Nagle .25 

One from Louise Ada Pitkin .25 

One from William Pitkin, Jr .25 

Two from Clark H. Vick 50 

One from Carl Gordon .25 

Oqe from Bradley Palmer .< .25 

One from Bessie Palmer .25 

One from Albert Bowen .25 


Previously acknowledged... 1,260 47 






the Hospital. 

•*• 


Number in Hospital Oct. 1st, 1885 .... 88 




'' deaths during month 2 

" remaining Oct. 1st, 1885 98 147


More Bricks. 

The little folks are not forgetting us. Five 

bricks come to us from one household, each of 

the little Moores sending us one. Carolyn 

Augusta Sherwood sends us two more. Eight 

little boys united together, held a circus, sold 

tickets, and sent us $2.25 for the Pavilion fund: 

then come two bricks from dear little Marguerite 

Allen Ely, and a cunning Jflkfe fellow, 

Herbert Siddons Mann, collects Wfny bricks 

and comes with his grandmother, w offer the 

treasurer of the fund brick money, "to help 

build a home for the poor little sick children 

that do not have any homes of their own." We 

hope next month some other children will 

imitate little Herbert's good example. 

The Doll's Fair. 

You know, dear children, when we give 

large parties we send out cards of invitation 

long in advance of the party, so that all 

the guests may be ready for the grand reception. 

We now announce to all the 

children in Rochester, and all their cousins 

in neighboring towns, that there is to be a 

grand Doll's Fair at Powers' Building on 

Donation Days, December ioth and nth. 

Everybody who wants a doll for herself, or 

desires to make a Christmas present of one 

to some little friend, will be sure to find 

just what is needed. There are dolls that 

clap their hands and dance, dolls that will 

talk and say papa and mamma, grandmother 

dolls, baby dolls, colored dolls, waitresses, 

nurses, dolls in bathing clothes, in tailor's 

suits, in jerseys, and every sort of a doll 

you can think of. We heard a lady say, 

that if the dolls did not sell well she did 

not know but she should put her own little 

baby up at auction, and she had had one 

bid for it already. Everything that a doll 

can want you will find at the Fair. There 

are sets of furs, bedsteads and swinging 

cradles, high chairs and swinging chairs, 

and lots of worsted and chrochetted articles. 

A cunning little basket contains a 

complete laundry set, wash tubs and boards, 

clothes-reel and bars, irons and ironing 

board. We cannot begin to tell you of all 

the choice things in the Dolls' Fair. You 

must come and see for yourselves. 


Our Library. 

All those who have enjoyed the varied 

resources of our Library, agree in saying, 

that it is an important element in the Hospital 

life. In the Wards and in the private 

rooms we find books cheering, consoling, 

and brightening both patient and nurse. 

Even the little ones have their simple stories 

and pictures. Could the outside world 

realize the comfort a few books give to 

"poor, sick and weary ones," many generous 

hearts would respond to our requests 

for additional contributions. We earnestly 

trust that many will be led to look upon the 

Library, not as a luxury or a useless item, 

but as a powerful moral and curative agent. 

We have succeeded in collecting 1221 

standards works of fiction, miscellanies, etc. 

The Library is interesting for the reason 

that these books come to us from many 

sources and accordingly furnish a great variety 

of reading matter. Some books are 

old and curious, others modern, but all are 

carefully selected. 

We append a list, as it might interest 

some to know how many volumes we have 

in each department: 

"Biography," 94 

" Children's BOOKS," 119 

"Fiction," 467 

"History,".. 75 

"Miscellanies," 110 

"Poetry," 60 

"Periodicals," 11 

"Reference,". 25 

" Religious Books," 123 

"Travels," 82 

" Duplicates," 44 

" Educational," 11 

1221 

A Child's Gift. 

Little Harry Bacon has sent us five 

bound volumes of the Youth's Companion, 

an acceptable gift. 

Books and papers thankfully received at 

the Hospital. 

••• 

Copies of the HOSPITAL REVIEW 

may be obtained of Mrs. Robert 

Mathews, 96 Spring street,


60 THE HOSPIIVVL REVIEW. 


OCTOBER, 1885. 

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Donations for October. 

Odd Fellows feast side) flowers. 

Mt. Hor Missionary friends, four tidies. 

Mrs. Oliver, pears. 

Mrs. Erickson. pears. 

Mrs. Leobs, pears. 

Miss Wild, two bushels of pears. 

The Misses Whitney thirty-three glasses of 

jelly. 

Misses Saxton, three baskets of grapes. 

St. Paul's Sunday School, fruit and flowers. 

Mrs. C. W Hayes, Westfield, N. Y,, two 

glasses of jelly. 

Industrial School donation, flowers. 

Mrs. Davis, reading matter. 

Mrs. Watson, reading matter. 

Mrs. T. D. Snyder, reading matter. 

Mrs. Rebasz, reading matter. 

Mrs. D. W. Bush, reading matter. 

Master Harry Bacon, five vols. Youth's Companion. 

Mrs. F. A. Sherwood, children's clothing. 

Mrs. A. T. Soule, infant's clothing. 

Miss Armstrong, old cotton and sundries. 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, two pairs pillow cases. 

Hed. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, Oct. 15, 1885, 

of opium poisoning, Archibald Smiley, aged 68 

years. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, Oct 20,1885, 

John Weilhammer, from a shock from a burn, 


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His outcast souls who bear the stains and scars; 

Healing their miseries, with touch 

Of balm, wrought in that realm above the stars. 

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VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER 5, 1885. No. 5 

We have been requested to publish the 

following poem and give the name of its 

author. We do not know by whom it was 

written. We first saw it in " The Changed 

Cross," a collection of choice poems published 

by A. D. F. Randolph, New York, 

in 1865: 

God's Anvil. 

Pain's furnace heat within me quivers, 

God's breath upon the flame doth blow, 

And all my heart in anguish shivers. 

And trembles at the fiery glow; 

And yet I whisper, "As God will!" 

And in His hottest fire hold still. 

He comes, and lays my heart, all heated, 

On the hard anvil, minded so 

Into His own fair shape to beat it 

With His great hammer, blow on blow; 

And yet I whisper, " As God will!" 

And at His Heaviest blows hold still. 

He takes my softened heart and beats it; 

The sparks fly off at every blow; 

He turns it o'er and o'er and heats it, 

And lets it cool and makes it glow; 

And yet I whisper, "As God will!" 

And in His mighty hand hold still. 

Why should I murmur ? for the sorrow 

Thus only longer-lived would be; 

Its end may come, and will to-morrow, 

When God has done His work in me; 

So I say, trusting, " As God will!" 

And, trusting to the end, hold still. 

He kindles for my profit, purely, 

Affliction's glowing fiery brand, 

And all His heaviest blows are surely 

Afflicted by a master hand; 

So I say, praying, " As God will!" 

And hope in Him, and suffer still. 

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is 

not long, and* if the gate be straight it 

opens into endless life.



Foreign Corresponpence. 

The following sôrt extract is from a 

private letter just received, dated Dresden, 

Nov. 16th, 1885 : 

From Baden I went to Mayence and visited 

the auaint old Cathedral, and mounted the 

tower of the Church of St. Stephen, from 

which I had a fine view of the fortifications, 

which are very strong and extensive. Napoleon 

I. used the tower of this church as one 

of his signal stations during his wars, when 

signals had to be sent by flags. The Germans 

are spending enormous sums m fortifying these 

towns on the Rhine and near the border, so 

that if France tries to win back her old territory, 

she will find a warm welcome. 

From Mayence, I commenced the descent of 

tho Rhine, which presents very little of interest 

till Bingen is reached, when the wide, flat 

valley above suddenly changes, and the ranges 

of hills come close to the river. Just here is 

the magnificent statue of Germania, recently 

erected to commemorate the union of the German 

states under the present Emperor. 

From Bingen to Bonn the hill points are 

covered with old castles, some in ruins and 

some restored. Some of these castles are very 

grand in their outlines, others the merest ruins, 

but most of them are rich in legends. Most of 

the hillsides long ago have been stripped of 

their forests, to give place to vineyards, and 

this loss has robbed the hills of the Rhine of 

much of their native beauty; for, if you 

take the most beautiful hill scenery and cut 

off all the forests and plant vines, you will 

greatly diminish the beauty of the scene. Now 

the Rhine, if it had its native forests, but did 

not have its castles, would be beautiful, but 

not as beautiful as the highlands of the Hudson. 

But the Rhine as it is, with its old castles 

and their legends, is very beautiful; but 

its beauty is unique, for you cannot separate 

the charms of the eye from those that come 

with the memory of its legends. At the rocks 

of the Lurlei the beauties are all of nature, for 

at this point, there are no ruins in sight, and 

the bold rock rises from the river with its natural 

forests. Here the passage of the Rhine has 

always been dangerous, and the legend places 

on this rock, the nymph who plays in the 

night, and lures the marine to destruction. 

J. 

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How to Ornament the Christmas Tree. 

Last year in many cities and towns 

there appeared in certain churches and 

halls Christmas trees of marvelous 

beauty. The tips of the green boughs 

were glittering with crystals, and reflected 

the light in many different colors. 

Some of these trees, in addition 

to the crystals, seemed' laden with 

golden fruit, like an orange tree in an 

untimely frost or snow storm. Other 

trees were ornamented with hand-painted 

flags of all nations. 

The method of covering green twigs 

with crystals is a very simple and inexpensive 

one. Put into a bucket a pound 

or more of alum, and pour a gallon or 

more of boiling water upon it. Place 

the tree in such a position that the tips 

of the boughs may remain in this solution 

for some hours, perhaps over 

night. Repeat the process until as 

many boughs are tipped with crystals 

as will make the tree very beautiful. 

Or cut off the twigs, crystallize them, 

and fix them again on the boughs. 

The golden fruit is simply made by 

gilding English walnuts. Hammer a 

long tack into the end of the walnut by 

which to suspend it after gilding. 

Wash the nut with the white of an egg 

with a feather. Then roll it in gold 

leaf, or powder, until it is well gilded. 

Or cover it with tin foil or imitation of 

gold leaf, as the real gold leaf is somewhat 

expensive. 

Acted charades are popular as diversions, 

after the distribution of the 

Christmas presents. The popular word 

in England of late for an elaborate 

acted charade is " Counter-charm "— 

(count) (err) (charm), the whole ending 

with an Oriental scene of a charm and 

counter charm. 

A Last Prayer. 

[Written by Helen Jackson ("H. H.) four days before her 

death.] 

From the December CENTURY. 

Father, I scarcely dare to pray, 

So clear I see, now it is done, 

That I have wasted half my day, 

And left my work but just begun. 

So clear I see that things I thought 

Were right or harmless were a sin; 

So clear I see that I have sought, 

Unconscious, selfish aims to win; 

So clear I see that I have hurt 

The BOUIS I might have helped to save, 

That I have slothful been, inert, 

Deaf to the calls Thy leaders gave. 

In outskirts of Thy kingdoms vast, 

Father, the humblest spot give me; 

Set me the lowliest task Thou hast, 

Let me repentant work for Thee ! 

August 8th.


Surgery and Music. 

One of the most interesting of modern 

surgical operations is that intended 

to remedy a deficiency of the hands in 

piano playing. Everyone who has attempted 

practice on a keyed instrument 

knows that the strength of the 

fingers is not equally distributed. The 

third, or ring finger, cannot be lifted as 

high as the others from the keyboard, 

and displays far less strength when in 

action. 

For example: If the middle and 

little fingers are pressed alternately 

upon the keys with the ring finger, the 

sound produced by the latter is not 

equal in volume to that made by the 

others. 

The cause of this weakness lies in the 

fact that while the muscles controlling 

the other fingers have free play, that 

which governs the ring finger is connected 

on each side, by a short tendon, 

with those of its neighbors. It is supposed 

by physicians that this unnecessary 

muscle is the last trace of a former 

webbed structure of the hand and foot. 

In some hands this tendon is absent, 

and sometimes it is present in one 

member and not in the others. In the 

latter case, it is usually found in the 

right hand. 

It was some years ago suggested that 

surgery might remove this tendon attachment, 

but it is only lately that the 

operation has been common. It is now 

often performed on both hands at a 

sitting, and with the loss of no more 

than a drachm of blood. 

After such an an operation, the liberated 

finger can be elevated an inch 

higher than before, above the plane of 

the hand, and can be used with delightful 

freedom. The liberty of the muscle 

is not attained at the expense of 

any other; the gain in one direction is 

not attended by loss of power elsewhere. 

It is probable that the operation will 

in time become a very common one, 

the necessary accompaniment of a musical 

education. 


A story for the truth of which we do 

not in the least vouch, represents 

Queen Victoria as laying down an excellent 

rule for table manners, but 

whether she was justified in exempting 

herself from its operation, we leave for 

others to say. The old maxim of the 

law is that the sovereign can do no 

wrong. 

It is told that Lord Tennyson and 

his family, including his little granddaughter, 

were dining at Osborne by 

invitation of the queen. During the 

meal the bread-plate ran low, and the 

queen took the last piece. 

Thereupon the little Tennyson girl, 

who had been taught that it was bad 

manners to take the last piece on the 

plate, pointed her finger at the queen, 

and said scornfully— 

" pi ggy. piggy, pig ! " 

The queen came nobly to the rescue 

in this odd situation: " You are quite 

right my dear," said she; " nobody but 

the queen should take the last piece on 

the plate." 

The latest amusing story of a wedding, 

told by a minister, comes from 

one who officiated on the occasion. It 

illustrates the manner in which a man's 

heart can swell and prompt him to almost 

reckless liberality under extraordinary 

conditions: 

A big, raw-boned young farmer entered 

Mr. Freeman's parlor one day, 

accompanied by a shy but comely girl, 

and desired that the marrage ceremony 

be performed. 

The minister complied with the request, 

and when the fatal words were 

spoken, the husband drew from his 

pocket four bright silver quarter-dollar 

pieces. 

He extended them towards the minister 

on his open palm, and exclaimed— 

"There, Brother F., just help yourself 

until you are satisfied." 

The minister took one. 

Whether or not the good minister 

expressed his satisfaction, or went away 

in sullen and ungrateful silence, we are 

not informed.


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ROCHESTER, N. Y.. DECEMBER 5. 1885. 

Annual Festival. 

The Donation Festival of the Rochester 

City Hospital will be held in Powers' building, 

Thursday and Friday, December ioth 

and nth, 1885, during the day and evening. 

The Lady Managers extend to all our citizens 

and those of the neighboring towns, a 

cordial invitation to aid us in this benevolent 

work. We look to the gentlemen as 

well as. ladies and children, for encouragement, 

and by their presence and gifts, to 

manifest their interest in this labor of love. 

We hope to see them, one and all. The 

refreshment tables will be furnished with 

the choicest and most palatable viands, 

dainties and luxuries to be produced. Dinner 

will be served from 12 M. ; supper 

from 5 P.M. 

The fancy tables will afford an opportunity 

for the purchase of Christmas and 

New Year gifts, and will be under the 

charge of Miss A. S. Mumford, assisted by 

Mrs. Wm. E. Hoyt, Miss Lois Whitney, 

Mrs. Josiah Anstice and Miss A. E. M. 

Wild. 

Articles for the Doll's Fair may be sent 

to Mrs. A. S. Hamilton, 71 South Washington 

street, or to Mrs. C. H. Babcock, 

151 Plymouth Ave. 

Articles for the Children's Pavilion Table 

will be thankfully received by Mrs. Charles 

H. Angel, 87 East Ave. 

Mrs. Erickson Perkins will have the care 

of the flower and candy table. 

Mrs. Clark Johnston, the care of the Mite 

Boxes—to her the old ones may be returned 

and from her new ones procured. 

Subscriptions for the HOSPITAL REVIEW 

may be made to Mrs. Robert Mathews ; 

also, donations for the Children's Pavilion. 

Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins, the treasurer, will 

be happy to secure the cash donations for 

the expenses of the Hospital. The managers 

trust that all will cheerfully give for 

this object donations as they are able. "If 

thou hast much give plenteously ; if thou 

hast little do thy diligence gladly to give of 

that little." 

Donations for any of these objects may 

be sent to any of the lady managers : 

Mrs. M. Strong, Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins, 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews, Mrs. A. D. Smith, 

Mrs. Freeman Clarke, Mrs. D. B. Beach, 

Mrs. J. H. Brewster, Mrs. H. H. Morse, 

Mrs. Clark Johnston, Mrs. H. F. Smith, 

Mrs. Myron Adams, Miss A. S. Mumford, 

Mrs. M. Landsberg, Miss A. E. M. Wild, 

Mrs. L. S. Chapin, Mrs. Wm. E. Hoyt, 

Mrs. J. Anstice, Mrs. A. S. Hamilton, 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, Miss Lois Whitney. 


The Managers this year would make a 

special appeal to their patrons, as their 

needs are unusually pressing. Their treasury 

is not only empty, but a debt of about 

$12,000 is resting on the institution. The 

report of the Secretary, given in the November 

REVIEW, indicates the work done 

the past year in this institution, but it is not 

current expenses alone that have crippled 

this charity. 

During the last four years necessary 

work or improvements, such as heating by 

steam, sewage, completing the small pavilions 

needed for isolating patients, the carrying 

on of the training school for nurses, 

finishing rooms in the dome, and other 

outlays, that the true interests of the 

Hospital made imperative, have from year 

to year, in addition to the current expenses, 

made heavy drafts upon the treasury, and 

the Managers feel some special efforts must 

be made to liquidate the debt and enable 

them to provide for the current expenses of 

the Hospital. 

Those who have had sickness in their 

own homes know that it is expensive.


Large, well-ventilated appartments are essential 

to the recovery of the sick, but it 

costs a good deal to heat them ; nourishing 

food is strengthening, but it has to be paid 

for ; weak and nervous persons demand a 

great deal of nursing, and many assistants 

are necessary to properly care for the 

invalids. 

In our frequent visits to the institution 

we have been amazed, in case of serious 

accidents, to see how quickly surgeons and 

surgical instruments and appliances, nurses, 

friends and priests eould be collected, offering 

their ministries to the sufferer, but 

this is attended with heavy expenses, and 

the community that enjoys such privileges, 

we trust will liberally respond to the call of 

those who conscientiously and carefully seek 

to dispense the bounty of which they are 

made the almoners. The sick and the 

maimed, the helpless and the suffering, 

plead through this charity, and we trust the 

response on Donation Days will be proportionate 

to the needs of the Rochester City 

Hospital. 

Come to the Banquet. 

The ladies of the Jewish, Universalist, 

St. Luke's, Methodist, Brick, St. Paul's, St. 

Peter's and Christ churches, invite their 

friends to dine and sup with them at Power's 

Building, on Thursday, December ioth, 

and on the following day (Friday, December 

nth), guests will be welcomed to the 

tables of the Baptist, Plymouth, First Presbyterian 

and Central churches, and that of 

Mrs. J. H. Brewster, Mrs. J. C. Hart and 

Mrs. H. H. Morse. 

Supplies for the tables may be sent to 

Powers 1 Building, where ladies will be ready 

to receive them. Those designed to be 

used on Thursday should be sent on that 

day, and those for Friday should be sent 

on that day. 

The little folks must be on the lookout 

for Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat's invitations 

to the Doll's Fair. 


The Fancy Table. 

The Fancy Table, in charge of Miss A. 

S. Mumford, assisted by Mrs. Wm. E. 

Hoyt, Miss Lois Whitney, Mrs. Josiah Anstice 

and Miss A. E. M. Wild, will present 

an attractive display of fancy and useful 

articles, from which acceptable Christmas 

gifts may be selected. Among these are 

after-dinner coffee cups and saucers, decorated 

with dog-woods, kalmias, forget-menots, 

fringed chrysanthemums, buttercups, 

anemones, jasmines and grasses ; royal 

Worcester broth-bowl, pitchers and other 

decorated china. For the babies there are 

dainty garments ; one handsome white 

woolen cloak is lined with satin and 

trimmed with beaver ; then there are 

afghans and embroidered carriage pillows, 

and knit and crochetted articles. In the 

apron line are beautifully hem-stitched 

aprons, and more serviceable ones for 

waitresses and nurses. There are chair 

scarfs, and satchet bags, and invalids' slippers, 

and sweet balsam bags, draw satchets, 

and an endless variety of pretty things. 

In connection with this department there 

is to be a house keepers' table, where there 

will be holders, wash cloths, pickles, canned 

fruit, jellies and lotions. 

Any donations to this table may be sent 

to Miss A. S. Mumford, Troup street. 

The Doll's Fair. 

We expect the children will go wild over 

the Doll's Fair. Between four and five 

hundred dolls are to hold a reception, and 

you can buy them at any price you want, 

from ten cents upwards. They are not to 

be crowded together as they were last year, 

for such fine babies and ladies as some of 

them are, must be treated with more dignity. 

When we were young, friends used 

to say : " Little folks must be seen but not 

heard," but people do not believe that now, 

and our musical dolls would feel insulted 

if they had to keep still. They like to be



whirled around, and will thank those who 

favor them with such suitable attention, by 

giving them tunes from the operas. We 

have grand dolls in tailor-made suits, with 

muffs, and tippets, and hats, made to order. 

We have baby dolls, and rubber dolls, dude 

dolls in swallow* tail coats and stove pipe 

hats, horse jockey dolls in fancy costume, 

Punch and Judy dolls, negro dolls, and 

dolls with common clothes, such as children 

like • to play with. We are to have a 

regular millinery department, and bonnets 

from fashionable milliners in Rochester and 

New York. The boys need not think they 

are forgotten for we are to have a corner 

for them, where there will be balls, knives, 

banks, soap-bubble-blowers, and lots of 

pretty things. 

Those who saw the pretty brass bedsteads 

last year will find more of the same 

kind on Donation Day, and the boxes of 

dolls with complete wardrobes, bath tubs 

and doll furniture, the swinging cradles, 

and fancy penwipers, will be sure to find 

custorners. 

The Children's Pavilion Table. 

The young folks, as usual, are making 

great preparations for Donation Days. The 

Pavilion Table is to be in charge of Mrs. 

Charles H. Angel, who for so many years 

has had the Children's Cot Table. She is 

assisted by ten little girls, many, of whom 

have been earnest workers for the Cot 

Fund. You will recognize them when we 

tell you their names : Edith Peck, Julia 

Robinson, Bessie Backus, Maggie Ashley, 

Madge Backus, Emma Wilder, Mabel Waters, 

Helen Williams, Laura Williams, Victoria 

Raymond. They are to sell fancy 

and useful articles, children's toys, homemade 

candy, and any contributions to this 

table will be thankfully received, and may 

be sent to Mrs. C. H. Angel, 87 East avenue, 

or Mrs. Robert Mathews, 96 Spring 

street. Anything that will sell will be appropriate 

for this table. 

The Children's Pavilion Fund. 

Kind friends from out of town, as well 

as the little folks in the city, are remembering 

our needs, and sending us brick money. 

A lady from New Jersey accompanies a 

donation with the following words: "Straw 

is no longer needed in the formation of 

bricks, paper being a good substitute, so I 

enclose a small amount to assist in the pile 

you are accumulating." One dollar comes 

to us from little Ruth Osborne, of Auburn, 

the second offering earned by her for the 

Pavilion Fund. Thomas Burgess, Jr., of 

St. Albans,,Vermont, sends us brick money 

that he has earned, and his mother makes 

an offering for his baby brother. A friend 

gives us an offering for little Adelaide Devine. 

Russell Parker Yites subscribes for 

a brick, and Emily Brewster and her twin 

sisters, Carrie and Sally, each bring their 

Thanksgiving offering. We wish that on 

the bricks given by the dear little children 

we could have photographs of their sunny 

faces. On Donation Days Mrs. Robert 

Mathews will receive donations to the 

Children's Pavilion Fund, and Master Laurance 

Angel will also sell bricks. 

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The Hospital Review. 

The Treasurer of the REVIEW will be 

very thankful if the subscribers to the RE- 

VIEW will renew their subscriptions on Donation 

Day, and thus save the trouble of 

collecting them from house to house. We 

are very anxious to increase our subscription 

list. We seek in the REVIEW to make 

known the work and needs of the Hospital 

and report what our friends are doing for 

it. We also have choice selections and 

some original miscellany. We will be very 

thankful if some of our readers will ask 

their neighbors to subscribe, and bring us 

their names, addresses, and the sixty-two 

cents that is the subscription price for one 

year. 

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Sheets and pillow cases are always acceptable.

Central Library of Rochester THE and Monroe HOSPITAL County REVIEW. · Historic Serials Collection 

71 

The Evening Entertainment. 

Through the kindness of our Jewish 

friends, we are able to announce that on 

the evening of Tuesday, December 15 th, 

1885, a dramatic entertainment, for the 

benefit of the Rochester City Hospital, will 

be given at the Eureka Club House, North 

Clinton street, on which occasion will be 

presented the Madison Square success, 

Mrs. Hodgson Burnett's 

ESMERALDA, 

with the following cast of characters : 

Elbert Rogers, a North Carolina farmer, 

A. E.Wollf 

Lydia Ann, his wife Miss Celia Stern 

Esmeralda, their (laughter.Miss Mamie Garson 

Dave Hardy, a young North Carolinian... 

Maurice Garson 

Estabrook, a man of leisure Herbert Grant 

Jack Desmond, a young American painter, 

Marcus Straus 

Nora Desmond, Jack's sister Miss Amelia Harris 

Kate Desmond, Jack's sister 

Miss Minnie B. Wollf 

Marquis DeMontessin, an Adventurer, ) 

George Drew, a Mining engineer, ) 

„ A. S. Guggenheimer 

SYNOPSIS OP THE PLAY. 

ACT I. Interior of Old Rogers' house in 

North Carolina. 

Under'the shadow of Old Bald Mountain. 

" And this is the house." Prospects of a great 

speculation. The Old Man appears. Mrs. Rogers' 

discontent. Esmeralda's confession. Dave 

and his little girl. " Mebbe you know how it is 

with us ? " The little frame house. Drew drives 

a bargain. The speculation progresses. Selling 

the land and the old house. Old Rogers pleads. 

"You'r not going to sell the old house, mother?" 

Dave's conjecture. " There's ore on this land." 

Dave stops the speculation. Mrs. Rogers sells 

the farm. The Rogerses become rich and have 

"city life" before them. Estabrook's generosity. 

The old man's despair. Esmeralda's 

grief. Mrs. Rogers has her contract. A revelation 

to Dave. " He's standing up agin 

mother." Mrs. Rogers argues the matter. "We 

have done with you forever." 

ACT. II. Jack Desmonds's Studio in Paris. 

Nora and Elate discuss the Rogerses. The 

Marquis is voted a " Reptile." Estabrook as a 

connoisseur of art and beauty. Estabrook finds 

track of the Rogerses. " I've a letter in my 

pocket which—" Dave in luck. " Monsieur 

Rogers" appears. His attempt at speaking 

French. "Lor! we've been gay!" A hasty 

lunch. "Take another cake." Dave as a model. 

News of Esmeralda. Nora tells Dave a story. 

The letter which brought good news. " I am 

indeed a rich man if tsrneralda loves me! " 

ACT. III. Drawing room in the Rogers' house, 

Paris. 

Kate and Jack discuss Nora and Estabrook. 

Jack's obtuseness. His sudden taste for dancing. 

A plate of ice cream. A "mysterous 

change " in Estabrook's character. A sudden 

fancy for Jack. The glove. Grasping the subject. 

Estabrook's appreciation of panels. At 

close quarters. Old Rogers'return. "Them's, 

young folks' ways." The old man and the 

Marquis. " Lets be sosharble." The Marquis 

does not agree with Rogers. The latters' appeal 

for Esmeraldas release. "These ain't North 

Carolina ways." Esmeralda makes a stand. 

The Marquis at a discount. Esmeralda's repudiation. 

"Pick them up if you think they are 

worth it." Esmeralda and her father. " Stand 

back, Liddy Ann ! tain't for you to tech her. 

Seem's like she's gone back to North Ca'liny in 

spite of you." 

ACT IV. Jack Desmond's Studio. 

A note to Mr. Rogers. Dave on the eve of a 

great event. The house that Dave built in 

North Carolina. What is to happen at 3 o'clock. 

Nora has reached a critical point. Estabrook, 

the glove and the ring. Rogers determines "to 

stand out for seein' things sot right." Mrs. 

Rogers at hand. ' 'Mother kinder quieted down." 

Bringing them together. Mrs. Rogers doesn't 

give up. Dave'B turn. The ore found in the 

wrong place. Mrs. Rogers is surprised. "There 

are such things as love and truth." Mrs. Rogers 

overcome. "Mother and me will be apt 

to come out kinder more evener." The Marquis'downfall. 

"And the sun shines on the 

little house as it used to in the old days." 

Those who have witnessed this entertainment 

say, that it is exceptionally fine, moral 

and attractive, and the best amateur performance 

they have ever seen. Tickets 

will be for sale by the Managers, and at 

the hall on Donation Day. Single tickets 

fifty cents, reserved seats seventy-five cents. 

The hall accommodates a thousand persons 

and we hope every seat will be filled. 

Further notice will be given in the daily 

city papers. 

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Pavilion Bricks. 

Laurance Angel, who has always worked 

on Donation Day for the Cot Fund, is to 

have a plan of the new Children's Pavilion 

and sell bricks for it, at twenty-five cents a 

brick. 

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More Helpers. 

Fritz Ward and Cornie Wilder, are to 

have a grab bag on Donation Days.

72 Central Library of Rochester and THE Monroe HOSPITAL County REVIEW · Historic Serials Collection 

Hospital Patients. 

On the last day of November we visited 

the Hospital. The snow was just disappearing 

from the city streets, but it still 

formed a pure mantle for the Hospital 

• lawn, from which settees, tents, and hammocks 

had disappeared. The sound of the 

hammer indicated that work was progressing 

within the new Children's Pavilion, the 

exterior of which appeared to be nearly 

completed. It was a day to appreciate the 

improvement made in the Hospital grounds 

by placing a stone walk from the side walk 

to the north entrance of the Hospital. 

As we entered the reception room, the 

recorder was telephoning and making arrangements 

to summon relatives to the dying 

bed of a patient, who, three days before, 

had been brought to the Hospital, and who 

was evidently nearing the dark valley. 

Twenty two patients were receiving 

treatment in the Male Surgical Ward. As 

we entered, the nurse was dressing the 

limb of a man, who, some weeks since, 

while making arrangements for scraping a 

chimney, fell and broke his hip. He still 

has weights attached to his limb, but, with 

the support of pillows and an inclined 

plane, he can sit up in bed, and amuse himself 

with a book. He and six other patients 

are confined to their cots. One of 

these is suffering from a burn, which is 

slowly healing ; another was brought in on 

Thanksgiving day, with a compound fracture 

of the leg; the surgeons hope to save 

the limb. A third is an aged gentleman 

who needs care, having dislocated his 

shoulder. One man, who had been brought 

in from Churchville, had been injured by a 

railroad accident. His system had received 

a general shock, and it was feared there 

were internal injuries. The night previous 

he was supposed to be dying, but under 

the influence of stimulants he had rallied 

and seemed more comfortable. The man 

whose leg and arm had been fractured by 

a railroad accident, was doing as well as 

could be expected, considering the severity 

of the wounds. The man who last month 

was reported as suffering from a punctured 

wound died on Thanksgiving day. In 

May last, when engaged in his work as a 

butcher, his knife slipped and entered his 

side. After being brought to the Hospital 

a free opening had been made, and an aspirating 

tube introduced ; a large amount 

of pus had been discharged, for a time 

benefiting the patient; but his life could 

not be saved. A man recovering from dislocated 

hip, was sitting up for the first time. 

One patient had a punctured wound in the 

calf of the leg, made by a piece of glass. 

The man with gangrenous ulcer, was still 

in one of the pavilions, and the other was 

occupied by a fever patient; both of these 

cases required isolation. 

There were twenty-one patients in the 

Male Medical Ward. But one man had 

died during the month, and he was but a 

few days in the Hospital. One patient 

who had been but three days iti the Hospital, 

was evidently dying. He noticed 

but little that was going on around him and 

seemed unconscious of pain. One man, 

after undergoing a surgical operation, had 

his arm bandaged. One patient was afflicted 

with rheumatism, another with swollen 

limbs, a third had hernia and another 

paralysis. A young man was convalescing 

from typhoid fever. A man who came to 

the Hospital blind, and unable to cut up 

his food, had had a cataract removed and 

sight restored, but still had his eyes bandaged. 

The eczema patient, under new 

treatment, was improving. 

There were fifteen inmates in the Female 

Medical Wards. A passage way to the new 

Children's Pavilion has been made through 

the Cross Ward, and the Lying-in-Ward 

has been divided into two rooms. In one 

of these was a colored consumptive woman 

and in another two fever patients ; the 

third room in the Cross Ward, was occupied 

by a cancer patient. A woman .with



diseased heart was confined most of the 

time to her cot. The consumptive patient 

who was so sick last month had died. 

While the carpenters have been making 

changes in the Lying-in-Ward, the mothers 

and babies have been occupying rooms in 

the third story. We found six mothers, 

six babies, and three waiting patients. 

There were babies of all kinds—one a day 

old, and four babies had been born in 

forty-eight hours. One of the babies was 

colored. The smallest specimen of humanity 

we have ever seen was a little baby that 

weighed four pounds. Its mother called it 

a doll, but it seemed strong and healthy. 

There were twenty patients in the Female 

Surgical Ward ; no death had occurred 

during the month. One woman who had 

had a surgical operation for internal tumor 

was very feeble ; another was doing well 

after a surgical operation for lacerated cervix 

and perinoeum. The woman with diseased 

rib was improving, and the one with 

a compound fracture of the hip was going 

about with the aid of a cane ; her accident 

occurred more than a year ago ; she was 

crossing the street, was knocked down and 

in falling injured her hip. It was five 

months before she came to the Hosipital 

for treatment, but she expresses great gratitude 

for the care and attention she has 

received in it. She says it is a lovely place 

for the sick, and she feels thankful for the 

kindness shown her. 


If you, dear children, were to go through 

Rochester, we do not believe that you 

could find a jollier child than Sarah, our 

little colored girl from the Orphan Asylum, 

in Hubbell Park. She is between 

two and three years old, and has curvature 

of the spine, and we fear she will always be 

a cripple, but we think her sunny disposition 

will make friends for her. When 

we last saw her, she was sitting up in her 

rocking chair and the nurse was feeding 

her from hei duck-shaped drinking cup. 

She looked up to us and wanted a story. 

The nurse took out the box in which Sarah 

keeps her toys and story books, and the 

little thing took out her dog, and with a 

twinkle in her eye, and a roguish laugh, 

looked up to us as she said : " bow, wow." 

We have another little girl from the Orphan 

Asylum, Annabelle Pere. She is about 

eight years old; when she came to the Hospital 

she was cross-eyed, but Dr. Rider has 

operated upon her eye and it is doing well, 

though still somewhat inflamed. Rosa goes 

about with her crutches, and when we saw 

her she was mending one of her dresses. 

You know she is our little Jennie Wren, 

and working on dolls' dresses has taught 

her how to sew on her own clothes. Maggie 

Barry has come from Seneca Falls She 

has a sore that makes her arm and shoulder 

lame, and gives her much pain. She 

looked pale and was lying on her cot with 

her arm in a sling ; she is about twelve 

years old. The Morey girl, who fell from 

the car at Charlotte and had to have her 

leg amputated, was up, dressed, and trying 

to use some new crutches that she had that 

day received. She has recovered very 

rapidly and looks healthy. Minnie Bryant, 

who has a diseased heart, is now quite comfortable. 

In the Male Surgical Ward, we 

found four boys playing cards and one of 

these was Max Kraus. He was reclining 

on one arm and resting on the cot; he had 

on his head a harness, and the first thing 

he said to us was : " Have you got the jackstraws 

?" We hope some of our children 

will supply them. Freddy Lyons was in 

his rolling chair. Johnnie Bier, whose toe 

was smashed by a stone rolling on it, was 

at the foot of the bed. Tommy Heeney 

does not change much. Martin Meyers, 

who worked in a cabinet maker's shop, and 

lost a part of his arm and some of his 

fingers by being caught in a machine, had 

recovered and gone home. The youth who 

hurt his thigh, in the elevator at Hamilton 

& Mathews, was able to sit up in a chair a



little while during the day, but still keeps 

his cot most of the time. The little boy 

with stiff limbs is better, but his eye is still 

bandaged though the inflammation is decreasing. 

We must not close our account 

of the little folks without speaking of the 

baby in the upper nursery that weighed 

only four pounds, and is not larger than a 

good sized doll. 

Thanksgiving Day. 

How delightful it is when on Thanksgiving 

day the scattered children of a large 

family circle return to the old home, and 

in true New England style celebrate the 

autumnal jubilee. A correspondent writes 

us from New Haven, Conn.: "We spent 

the day at 'father H.'s. Sixteen were at 

the table—an unbroken family, into which 

death has not yet entered. There were 

three generations: three fine sons with 

their nice wives and children; Mrs. Cook, 

the daughter, and her husband, the Rev. 

Joseph Cook. I sat next Mr. C, and enjoyed 

his talks. He proposed we should 

all join hands and sing the doxology, 

' Praise God from whom all blessings flow. 1 

All the family are fine singers, including 

our little Josie. It was grand. Before 

parting in the evening we sang ' Rock of 

Ages."' 

To some of us Thanksgiving day brings 

mingled memories, and the vacant chairs 

remind us of those w"ho no longer mingle 

with us at the festive board. It is not 

always easy for us to sing with the poet: 

" I thank Thee for the wing of love, 

Which stirred my worldly nest; 

And for the stormy clouds which drove 

The flutterer to Thy breast." 

As we repeated these lines to one of the 

Hospital patients, who for years has been 

confined to her cot or chair, who has but 

limited use of her limbs, she, with a beautiful 

Christian spirit, responded: "You 

can see sunshine through many a cloud, if 

you only look for it," and then she and another 

patient spoke of the kindness of the 

ladies in providing such an excellent dinner 

for them on Thanksgiving day. "We had," 

said they, "turkey and every thing to go 

with it. We could not have had a better 

dinner at Powers Hotel. Everything 

looked nice and was well cooked. Miss 

Hebbard and Miss Field passed oranges 

around. You might call us the happy 

family." 

Ii is delightful to feel that a few gifts 

and kind attentions can bring joy to those 

who have so" many trials, and we wish all 

who contributed to the Thanksgiving dinner 

could have heard the expressions of 

gratitude from those who shared their 

bounty. 

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Correspondence. 

The following, letter explains itself, and 

shows where we have some kind friends : 

LINCOLN, N. Y., NOV. 9th, 1885. 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews: 

DEAR MADAM :—The Lincoln M. E. C, have 

thought of making a Christmas Box for the 

children in the City Hospital, letting the children 

in the Sabbath School have this for their 

Christmas, instead of a tree, and let each child 

make some little gift. None, of the children 

are rich and some quite poor, but we 

thought it would be a good thing to let them 

do what they could. I saw the annual report, 

sent to the Post Express by you, and thought 

it a good plan to write to you for information 

as to what would be most acceptable, what 

toys and books they would receive with pleasure. 

Would they like scrap-books, picturebooks, 

dolls, etc. ? How would they like a 

pretty quilt to be pieced and have it for the 

bed of some little child who needed something 

to busy its little mind and keep it away from 

its pain ? This to be kept and passed around 

as it was needed. If this would be liked what 

size shall we make it? Have you any very 

sick children with you ? Can you not write 

me something to excite the interest of the 

school and rouse their sympathies? We have 

also thought of having a concert, and taking a 

fee to send with the box, to enable the work of 

the addition to go on. Please write me at once 

if you can. Yours in the faith of Christ, 

MRS. B. L. PEACOCK, 

LINCOLN, Wayne Co., N. Y. 

When the threshold of your heart is 

sore with the tread of departing joys, 

remember that Christ is emptying you 

of all else, that he may fill you with 

himself.



NOVEMBER, 1885. 

Dr. Samuel Holman, North Parma, by 

Miss Markham $ ,50 

J. L. Bangs, Churchville, 50 cents; Mrs. 

Henry J. Moore, 62 cents; Mrs. N. E. 

Swartout, Highland Park, Ill.y 50 

cents—by Miss Hebbard .. 1.62 

Mr. H. F. Atkinson, 62 cents; Mrs. A. 

Bier, 62 cents; Mrs. W T. Bassett, 

62 cents; Miss E. D. Brown, 62 cents; 

Miss Grace A. Badger, 62cents; Mrs. 

J. T. Briggs, 62 cents; Mrs. W. C. 

Barry, 65 cents: Mrs. C. S. Baker, 

62 cents; Mrs. J. R. Chamberlain, 62 

cents; Mrs. D. Davenport, 62 cents; 

Mrs. C. E. Finkle. $1.25; Mrs. N. Gilliard, 

62 cents; Mrs. E. P. Gould, 62 

cents; Miss F. B. Gregory, 62 cents; 

Mrs.M. D. L. Hayes, 62 cents; Mrs. 

C. J. Hayden, 62 cents; Miss E. Hanford, 

62 cents; Mrs. E. H. Hollister, 

62 cents; Mrs. J. O. Hall. 65 cents; 

Edmund W. Hills, $1.25. Mrs. W. R. 

Hallowell, 62 cents; Mrs. D. H. Little, 

62 cents; Mrs. E. I. Loop, 62 

cents; Mrs. A. Moseley, 62 cents; 

Mrs. C. R. Morgan, 62 cents; Mrs. J. 

H. Phelan, 62 cents; Mrs. S. Porter, 

62 cents; Mrs. G. E. Ripsom, 62 cents; 

Mrs. S. B. Roby, 62 cents; Mrs. C. F. 

Smith, 62 cents; Mrs. James Sargent, 

62 cents; Mrs. E. D. Smith, 62 cents; 

Mrs. John Smith, 62 cents; Miss A. 

E. M. Wild, 62 cents; Mrs. E. P.Willis, 

62 cents; Mrs. F. Wolff, 62 cents: 

Mrs. C. B. Woodworth, 62 cents—by 

Miss Hayes 24.26 

Mrs. E. Bates, New York, 50 cents; Mrs. 

W. V. Baker, Troy, $1; Mrs. M. H. 

Cotter, 62 cents; Mrs. N. Dann, East 

Avon, $1; Miss Florence Este, Philadelphia, 

56 cents; Mrs. H. Frost, Boston, 

$1.50; Mrs. E. W. Holmes, Boston, 

50 cents; Mrs. J. Keener, 62 

cents; Mrs. George McKittrick, 

Brooklyn, 50 cents; Mrs. H. Osgood, 

62 cents; Mr. G. T. Palmer, East 

Avon, four subscriptions, $2; Mrs. 

Philip Schlosser, New York, 50 

cents; Mrs. J. D. F. Slee, Elmira, 50 

cents; Mrs. Dr. Stoddard, 65 cents; 

Mrs. W. R. Sheffield, Sangerties, $1: 

Mrs. D. Underhill, Buffalo, 50 cents; 

sale of papers, 10 cts.—by Treasurer 12.67 





Copies of the HOSPITAL REVIEW 

may be obtained of Mrs. Robert 

Mathews, 96 Spring street, 


Donations for November. 

Florence McPherson, children's reading matter. 

Mrs. F. Bottum, quilt, old cotton and reading 

matter. 

Mrs, Miller, old cotton and books. 

Mrs. Rcw, Century magazines. 

Mrs. E. H. Munn, reading matter. 

Mrs. C. H. Angel, books. 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, turkey and reading matter. 

Miss Rose Hayden, two ornamented cakes. 

Mrs. Martindale, bushel of sweet potatoes 

and a half bushel of cranberries. 

Mrs. Freeman Clarke, bushel of peas. 

Mrs. Swartout, one gallon oysters. 

Miss Benjamin, basket of quinces and basket 

of pears. 

Miss Julia Robinson, jelly. 

Miss Edith Peck, Charlotte Russe. 

Mrs. A. G. Yates, old cotton. 

Mrs. J. Shatz, bed and bedding for Children's 

Pavilion. 

George anc Laura, scenes in the wild west. 

Mrs. W. B. Douglas, instrument. 

Ailing & Corey, six dozen envelopes. 

Mrs. Delano, old cotton and reading matter. 

Children's Pavilion Fun(| 

Adelaide Devine, one brick, by Miss 

Tuttle $ .25 

Russell Packer Yates, for one brick. .25 

Mrs. C. J. Catlin, Elizabeth, N. J. 2 00 

"Second earned offering" of Ruth Osborne, 

Auburn, by Julia Robinson.. 1 00 

Emily Brewster's Thanksgiving offering 

Carrie Brewster's Thanksgiving offering 

:. 1 00 

Sallie Brewster's Thanksgiving offering 

1 00 

Thomas Burgess, Jr., St. Albans, Vt., 

for two bricks .50 

Alexander M. Burgess, St. Albans,Vt., 

for one brick .25 

Rev. Tryon Edwards, Gouverneur 2 00 






Mathews, 9(5 Spring street, the Treasurer of 


the Hospital. 

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Number in Hospital Nov. 1st, 1885 .... 93 





" remaining Dec. 1st, 1885 102 162



At the Rochester City Hospital, Nov. 2, 1885, 

fracture of the skull from railroad accident, 

Anna Maria Hozelwonder, aged 26 years. 

November 4,1885, from acute phthisis, Agnes 

Barnes, aged 26 years. 

November 13, 1885, from shock following operation 

for cancer of rectum,' Besiah Wright, 


November 24, 1885. heart disease, with general 

dropsy, Charles Moore, aged 74 years. 

November 26, 1885, Henry Zimmer, from 

pleuro pneumonia, aged 22 years. 

November 30, 1885, of Bright's disease, Geo. 

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I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME,' 

VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY 15, 1886. No. 6 


The Donation Days, December ioth and 

nth, have come and gone, and the Treasurer's 

report indicates how generously the 

citizens responded to our appeal. Many 

willing hands worked dilligently and untiringly 

for the City Hospital, and the cash 

receipts were larger than on any previous 

donation festival, and we were glad to 

welcome some new faces among the donors, 

proving that the Hospital is constantly 

gaining new friends. We should indeed be 

tingrateful if we did not appreciate the liberal 

contributions of our patrons, but as the 

amount raised was not sufficient to meet our 

indebtedness, and as the current expenses 

are constantly going on, making large drafts 

upon our treasury, we must confess we cannot 

give up the hope that funds will yet be 

raised to relieve the Managers, whose 

hearts are still burdened by the debt resting 

on the institution, and whose hands are 

crippled when they would gladly devise 

liberal things for the invalids. 

Our Treasurer suggests that if among the 

good people of Rochester who have not yet 

responded to the appeal, not having been 

able to avail themselves of the pleasure 

and privilege of attending the donation on 

the ioth and nth of last month, one thousand 

could be found to give from $i to $5 

each, the debt would be paid quickly, and 

the work of the opening year taken up with



fresh courage and zeal. Any such gifts can 

be sent to the Treasurer or to any of the 

lady managers. 

Through the generous courtesy of our 

constant benefactor, Mr. Daniel W. Powers, 

whose name is a synonym of largehearted 

hospitality, we welcomed our 

friends in Powers 1 Hall and the adjoining 

apartments, and the tastefully arranged 

boards and tempting viands made our refreshment 

tables a source of large receipts. 

The Reception Committee, the Treasurer 

of the City Hospital and the Treasurer of 

the " Hospital Review," were stationed at 

the south side of Powers' Hall. On Thursday 

the ladies of the Jewish, Universalist, 

St. Luke's, Methodist, Brick, St. Paul's, St. 

Peter's and Christ churches welcomed their 

friends, and, on the following day, guests 

were feasted at the tables of the First Baptist, 

Plymouth, First Presbyterian and Central 

churches, and at that of Mrs. J. H. 

Brewster, Mrs. H. H. Morse and Mrs. J. 

C. Hart. Our florists made liberal contributions 

that, with the addition of fruit, 

formed centre pieces to the tables. On 

St. Paul's Church table was a model of St. 

Paul's church, given by Buck & Sanger. 

The stone blocks were represented by parallelograms 

of tongue, the window sashes 

by confectionery, and the interior was filled 

with boned turkey. On the Brick Church 

table was a handsome candied fruit centre 

piece, donated by Mr. John Roberts. On 

the west side of Powers' Hall was the oyster 

and coffee table of Mrs. Oscar Craig, Mrs. 

A. H. McVean, Mrs. Thomas Chester, and 

Mrs. H. P. Brewster. Mr. Scott W. Updike, 

Mr. A. O. Gordon, Mr. Wm. Pierce, 

Mr. R. D. Ashley and Mr. A. Wile officiated 

as carvers. 

In the hall south of Powers' Hall, Mrs. 

Clarke Johnston received and distributed 

the mite boxes, and Miss Mattie Pond and 

Ella Durand sold tickets for Esmeralda. 

There, too, were spread the fancy tables 

under the direction of Mrs. C. H. Angel, 

for the Children's PAvilion fund The little 

folks before and during the donation 

worked nobly for this object, and their 

zeal and industry are worthy of all commendation. 

The ten little maidens, Edith 

Peck, Julia Robinson, Bessie Backus, Maggie 

Ashley, Madge Backus, Emma Wilder,. 

Mabel Waters, Helen Williams, Laura Williams 

and Victoria Raymond, had made and 

collected many pretty fancy and useful articles, 

and on Donation Day, dressed in 

their Normandy caps, they presided assaleswomen 

at the fancy tables. Our youn& 

friend Laurance Angel, who has always labored 

for the Cot Fund, before and during 

the festival worked vigorously in selling 

bricks for the Pavilion, and raised $40.00. 

Frity Ward and Connie Wilder sold soap 

bubble blowers one day, and the next had a 

Christmas tree, sent by Mr. Frost, ready for 

use, and from which they sold articles at 

ten cents each. 

On the Pavilion table was a very handsome 

bronzed and gilded work basket,, 

mounted on a tripod and lined with orange 

satin, the work of Miss Laura Selden ; here, 

also, were some pretty landscapes painted 

by Miss Annice; a seaside view, by Mr- 

Charles Baker: a doll's bedstead and dressing 

table, by Mrs. S. S. Avery; a blue plush 

wall pocket with bronzed sprays of blackberries, 

and a spider web, also a scrap basket,, 

and fancy articles by Mrs. W. J. Ashley; 

plush foot rests, by Mrs. L. A. Ward ; 

painted easels, thermometer case, padlocks,, 

and frames, by Miss Clarice Jeffrey; a doll, 

dressed by Jennie and Helen Osgood; 

painted dinner cards, by Bessie Kingman, a 

painted book, by Miss Fairchild, and some 

home-made candy. 

In the large room east of the hall were 

the Doll's Fair and Miss Mumford's Fancy 

Table. The Doll's Fair contained every 

variety'of doll that could be desired, and 

everything pertaining to a doll. In connection 

with this Fair, Mrs. C. F. Paine had 

prepared five hundred cornucopias of pop


corn and candy, and Clara Landsberg and 

Esther Chapin were very active in selling 

these. On Miss Mumford's Fancy Table 

were two very beautiful silk quilts made by 

Mrs. S. G. Andrews. The large one was 

made of pearl-colored watered silk stripes 

and embroidered ribbons; it was lined with 

pink silk, wadded with wool, and was 

quilted. The smaller one was for a child's 

bed. Miss Whitney's decorated cups, 

saucers, plates and dishes were very much 

admired. There was a fine display of toilet 

cushions. Some embroidered on bolting 

cloth were very delicate. A dainty white 

cloak for a child came from Mrs. A. D. 

Fiske, N. Y. 

In one of the small rooms Misses Augusta 

Whitney, Bessie Kingman and Laidily Harris, 

made, by a sideshow, $26.64. They had a 

smoking doll dressed as a dude, with white • 

pants, blue vest, red coat, stovepipe hat and 

gilt trinkets. When wound up he would 

put a cigarette in his mouth, turn his head, 

wink his eyes, emit smoke from his mouth, 

put his eyeglass to his eye and look around 

with a self-satisfied air that pleased the little 

folks. 

In another room Mrs. George H. Perkins, 

Mrs. W. H. Ward and Miss Selden 

had their "Always Ready Tea Table," 

where they were complimented for their 

Oolong and English breakfast teas. In the 

same room Mrs. Erickson Perkins had her 

Flower Table and Mrs. Alexander Thompson 

her candy table. Among the contributions 

to the flower table were a profusion of 

chrysanthemums, bouvardias and hyacinths. 

Some choice roses, lilies, and a rare orchid 

came from Mr. William S. Kimball. 

We have endeavored to report correctly 

every donation, but we doubt not our list 

contains many errors and omissions; we 

will cheerfully make any correction if 

notice be sent to Mrs. S. H. Terry, 36 

South Washington street. 

The reports from the Mite boxes will appear 

next month. 


Esmeralda. 

On Tuesday evening, December 15,1885 

a select and appreciative audience gathered 

at the Eureka club rooms, where, according 

to previous announcement, members 

of the Eureka club and others delighted 

their friends with the presentation 

of Esmeralda. The appointments of the 

hall and the arrangements for the play were 

very complete, and the opinion was universally 

expressed that it was the best amateur 

performance ever given in Rochester. The 

characters were all well sustained, and the 

evening was a very enjoyable one. Mr. A. E. 

Wollf, both as "Farmer Rogers" and "Monsieur 

Rogare," enacted his part admirably. 

His attachment to the old home and simple 

country life, his fear of " Mulher," his love 

for the little daughter, his sympathy for the 

lover, and his "good-natured endurance of 

the limitations of fashionable society, including 

the burden of gloves and the Parisian 

dialect,, were portrayed with great 

power. Miss Celia Stern as "Lydia Ann" 

was the dominant spirit of the play. 

"Excelsior" was evidently her motto, and 

when the old home and simple life were 

left behind, she gracefully accepted the rich 

toilets and the surroundings of high life in 

Paris, as if "to the manner born." The 

charming " Esmeralda," Miss Mamie Garson, 

won all heart?, and we wondered not 

that Mr. Maurice Garson as "Dave Hardy," 

was loath to resign his "little girl," and felt 

his cup of bliss was filled to the brim when 

once more he could claim her as his own. 

The studio was very artistically arranged, 

and the scenes within it were very life-like. 

Mr J. Herbert Grant most acceptably personated 

"Estabrook," and Mr. Marcus 

Straus "Jack Desmond." Miss Amelia 

Harris and Miss Mamie R. Wollf were the 

pleasing, attractive sisters of "Jack Desmond," 

and their absorption in their painting 

at times, and their coy flirtations at 

others, added much to the interest of the 

play. Their lady-like bearing and tasteful



toilets were in harmony with their artistic 

surroundings. Mr. A. S.Guggenheimer made 

a capital " Marquis de Montessin," and the 

scene between him and " Monsieur Rogare" 

was much applauded. 

We are greatly indebted to Messrs. John 

Rodenbeck, Martin Muldauer, George Weineman, 

W. C. Hadley, Gardner, R. H. 

Lansing and John Raybould, for their acceptable 

gratuitous orchestral services ; to 

Mr. Martin E. Wollf, who displayed great 

taste in his arrangements as stage manager ; 

to the Eureka club for the free use of their 

beautiful hall; to Mr. Joseph Levi, head 

usher, and Messrs. M. Hummell, S. Garson, 

George Perkins, Granger Hollister, Haywood 

Hawks and Warham Whitney, who 

also officiated as ushers; to Mr. Gates, of 

Grand Opera House, for selling tickets; to 

Ailing & Cory, for cardboard for tickets; to 

the Democrat and Chronicle for printing 

the same; to the Union and Advertiser for 

programmes; to Messrs. C. J. Hayden. Jeffrey, 

Mudge, MilHman and Teall for chairs; 

to Messrs. I. H. Dewey, Salter Brothers, A. 

Beir, J. Ludwig, Howe & Rogers and A. 

Sichel for articles for decorating and furnishing 

the stage ; and to all who in any way 

contributed to the success of "' Esmeralda." 

As the avails of the entertainment, the 

City Hospital reaped a benefit of $407.50. 

The Children's Pavilion Fund. 

The contributions to the children's Pavilion 

fund come to us so full of loving 

work and tender memories, we feel they 

must be blessed by the Master. We joyfully 

welcome the children's offerings, as 

we do the breath of the first Spring violets, 

harbingers and earnests of greater blessings 

yet in store for us. 

We have so many friends we hardly 

know where to begin to enumerate them. 

We desire to thank every one of them that 

worked so diligently for the Pavilion table 

before and at the Donation Festival. Our 

young friend Laurance Angel comes to us 

with one hundred and one names and $40 

for bricks. Herbert Siddons Mann brings 

us $21, his second collection of Pavilion 

brick money, and Miss E. G. Wilson, of 

Wolcott, sends us one dollar for mortar, 

with which to put his bricks together. The 

following petition was presented by Herbert 

Siddons Mann when collecting for the 

Children's Pavilion Fund : 

Dear Everybody, will you please 

Do what you can to help increase 

My fund, and make a good array, 

For me to give Donation Day ? 

It's for poor children who are sick, 

And if you'll give me first one brick, 

(That's five and twenty cents you know), 

It all will help my list to grow! 

But if you choose to give me more, 

Your wish I'll surely not ignore, 

For I want the list to be so high 

That God can see it in the sky! 

Eighteen bricks are collected by Marion 

M. Reid. 

The memorial offerings that come to us 

are some of them very touching. One is 

$5 sent from Fort Lowell, Arizona, in memory 

of John Throop Martin, who was born 

in Rochester January 22, 1884, and died 

January 22, 1885. Another of fifteen dollars 

is in memory of two little cousins, Lillian 

Isabel Morse and Kate Louise Howland. 

One is from Geneseo, "in memory 

of a loved one." Two are in memory of 

two little brothers, safe in the upper fold, 

and are the contents of the dear children's 

banks that have long been unopened ; little 

Arthur Yates died April 16, 1879 » n * s 

brother, Howard L. Yates, died April 20, 

1884. A memorial offering of two dollars 

from the bank of Olive Joy Williams was 

sent on her birthday, December 3d. Eight 

bricks come from Fanny Converse Gould^ 

of Brooklyn, two years old, who was so interested 

in the children's Pavilion that she 

went to sleep singing to herself : " Four 

bricks from little Fanny ! " Six bricks come 

from Holley. Four from Chester Dewey 

Averell, Ogdensburg. Freddy DePuy, four 

years old, sends us from Tioga, Ont., two


bricks, one of which he earned. Emily, Carrie, 

Sallie and Franklin Brewster send us $5 

brick money, and the same amount is 

brought by Sylvanus J. Macy, Jr., who has 

just recovered from scarlet fever. Dear 

little Marguerita A. Ely lifts up her baby 

hand with her offering "for the sick children." 

Agnes B. Raines brings us $1,which 

she earned, giving three bricks for herself 

and one as a birthday present for her brother 

Eugene. Isabella Hart sends us her annual 

offering of $5; then we have $10 from 

Gabrielle Clarke, and four bricks from Arthur 

S. Hamilton, Jr. 

For a long list of offerings we must refer 

to Mrs. R. Mathews report. We thank all 

who have helped us and are always happy 

to receive offerings. 

Thanks. 

The managers of the City Hospital tender 

their grateful thanks to Mr. D. W. 

Powers for the free use of Powers' Hall 

and other apartments in Powers' building, 

and the services of his employes on Donation 

days ; to C. J. Hayden & Co., # for the 

use of twenty-one extension tables ; to 

Copeland & Durgis, for the use of thirty 

kitchen tables : to Geddes & Co., for two 

Ransom ranges, and for putting up and taking 

down the same ; to the Municipal Gas 

Company for two gas stoves ; to Kondolf 

Brothers for ice ; to W. H. Babcock for one 

half ton of coal; to K. P. Shedd for cartage 

; to Mr. Boyd for personal services ; to 

several employes of the Hospital for personal 

services; to the Union and Advertiser 

for seventy-five placards ; to the editors 

and proprietors of the city papers for 

gratuitous advertisements and notices, and 

to all who in any way by their donations, 

services or presence, contributed to the success 

of the festival. 

Copies of the HOSPITAL REVIEW may 

be obtained of Mrs. Robert Mathews, 96 

Spring street. 


Vote of Thanks. 

At the regular monthly meeting of the lady 

managers of the Rochester City Hospital, held 

January 6, 1886, upon motion it was unanimously 

resolved that a vote, of thanks should 

be tendered to the Eureka Club, amateurs, for 

the delightful evening's entertainment given 

by them December 15, 1885, which not only 

afforded so much pleasure to the audience, but 

also brought into the treasury the handsome 

sum of $407.50. It was also resolved that their 

thanks should be extended to the gentlemen of 

the club for the generous donation of their 

theater for the evening, and to all who gave 

their musical services, making an entertainment 

not soon to be forgotten. By order, 

MRS. C. E. MATHEWS, Cor. Sec'y. 

Dishes and Articles Left at Power's 

Hall. 

One large square tin. 

Five tin pans 

Five tin pie plates. 

One yellow dish. 

One white dish. 

One white fluted dish. 

One gilt band dish. 

One low glass dish. 

One blue plate. 

Eleven white dining plates. 

One white soup dish. 

One white vegetable dish. 

One fork. F. B. C. 

One teaspoon, F. B. C. 

One olive fork. 

One white bowl. 

One Japan tray. 

One round tray. 

One saucer. 

One bangle. 

One shawl pin. 

One bloodstone scarf pin. 

One gilt hat pin. 

One pair rubbers. 

Fourteen handkerchiefs. 

Six napkins. 

One black comb. 

One white apron. 

One red check towel. 

A square of blue velvet with chenille embroidery. 

Gloves, Baskets, &c. 

The articles left at the hall are at the residence 

of the Treasurer, 174 Spring street. 

A child's purse, with small amount of money 

was left at the Children's Pavilion table and 

can be found at Mrs. C. H. Angel's, 87 East 

avenue. 

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Several articles omitted for want of room 

wVU appear next month.


86 THE Hospitxt REVIEW. 

RECEIPTS A T THE DONA TION FESTIVAL Hayden Furniture Co 25 00 

HELD AT 

Theodore Bacon 25 00 

E. K. Warren & Son 25 00 

Powers' Hall, Dec. 10 and 11, 1885. Geo. W. Archer 26 00 

M. D. L. Hayes 25 00 

CASH DONATIONS. 

F.S.Upton 25 00 

D. W. Powers...., $ 800 00 Taylor Bros 25 00 

Sibley, Lindsay & Curr 200 00 Scrantom, Wetmore & Co 25 00 

Hamilton & Mathews 100 00 Miss Cronin 25 00 

Brewster, Gordon & Co 100 00 Mrs. E. M. Smith 25 00 

Samuel Wilder 100 00 Miss Henriette Mumford 25 00 

Wm. S. Kimball 100 00 Mrs. Alfred Ely 25 00 

Smith, Perkins & Co 100 00 Mrs. H. H. Morse 25 00 

Alfred Wright 100 00 E. P. Reed & Co , 25 00 

W. H. Gorsline 100 00 H. S. Greenleaf 25 00 

Geo. E. Mumford 100 00 Bishop McQuaid .. 25 00 

L.P.Ross 100 00 Chas. FitzSimons.. 25 00 

Samuel Sloan .. loo 00 B. D. McAlpine 25 00 

Alfred Bell 100 00 Geo. F. Danforth 25 00 

Freeman Clarke 100 00 E. H. Cook & Co 25 00 

D. A. Watson 100 00 E. T. Curtiss 25 00 

Geo. C. Buell 100 00 F. W. Elwood 25 00 

Dr. W. S. Ely 10u 00 Dr. C. A. Dewey 25 00 

Hough & Ford 100 00 F. A. Whittlesey 25 00 

George Ellwanger 100 00 William Ailing 25 00 

A friend 100 00 Geo. S. Riley 25 00 

Henry Bartholomay. 100 00 Frederick Cook 25 00 

Howe & Rogers 100 00 Philip Will 25 00 

M.F.Reynolds 100 00 Ellsworth, Luther & Co.. 25 00 

A. G. Yates 1T)O 00 B. E. Chase 25 00 

Hollister Bros 100 00 E. M. Uptoa 25.00 

James C. Hart 100 00 Patrick Barry 25 00 

Julius T. Andrews 70 00 LeviHey 25 00 

A. J. Johnson 50 00 James Field 25 00 

J. Greenwood 50 00 W. H. Glenny & Co 25 00 

S. J. Macy. 50 00 S. F. Hess 25 00 

S. J. Arnold 50 00 S. B. Roby 25 00 

A. S. Mann 50 00 Sibley & Atkinson 25 00 

Dr. Stoddard 50 00 A. T. Soule 25 00 

J. W. Gillis ;.' 50 00 J. W. Hannon 25 00 

John W. Oothout 50 00 H. Likly 25 00 

C. B. Wood worth 50 00 W. K. Chapin 25 00 

L. Adler & Bros 50 00 H. A. Strong 25 00 

Mrs. A. Carter Wilder 50 00 Ira L Otis 25 00 

Mrs. Wm. L. Halsey 50 00 L. S. Graves 25 00 

C. J. Hayden & Co 50 00 Estate of Wm. Churchill 20 00 

Oscar Craig. 50 00 Mrs. Maltby Strong. 20 00 

Michael Stern & Co 50 00 Miss Dunlap 18 00 

Isaac Willis 50 00 Henry Lamb 15 00 

K. P. Shedd 50 00 Whitmore, Rauber & Vicinus 15 00 

Brewster, Crittenden & Co 50 00 B.Herman 15(10 

Steam Gauge and Lantern Co 50 00 Mr*. Eads Hazard, New York 15 00 

Gilbert, Brady & Co, 50 00 Miss Newell 10 00 

Chas. M. Everest 50 00 Mrs. A. H. Rice, Boston 10 00 

Chas. F. Pond 50 00 Mrs. J. C. Van Epps 10 00 

Wm. Corning 50 00 Mrs. H. Osgood 10 00 

Chas. F. Smith 50 00 Mrs. Samuel Millman 10 00 

J. Judson 50 00 Mrs. D. K. Robinson 10 00 

Mrs. M. D. Bean, Ogdensburg 50 00 Mrs. D. Andrews .. .. 10 00 

H. H. Babcock 35 00 Hebrew Benevolent Society, by Mrs. 

J. J. Bausch 25 00 S. S. Wile ....' .. 10 00 

Nathan Stein 25 00 Mrs. W. N. Sage 10 00 

W. B. Douglas 25 00 Mrs. John Weis 10 00 

J. Fahj 25 00 Mrs. Chloe Wilcox 10 00 

M. Filon.... 25 #0 0. T. Mooip 10 00 

Col. N. P. Pond 25 00 Austin H. Cole 10 00 

J. H. Wickes 25 00 John A. Davis 10 00 

J. E. Booth.. 25 00 E.W.Peok 10 00 

D. A. Woodbury 25 00 Cash io 00 

H. H. Pryor 25 00 E. R. Jennings 10 00



William Loop $10 00 

Edward Brewster " 10 00 

N. Osborne ' io 00 

yico '.'.'.'. IOOO 

E. H. Vredenburg. 10 00 

J. L. Stewart 10 00 

J. Emery Jones 10 00 

F. M. McFarlin 10 00 

H. C. Gorton . 10 00 

€. W. Gorton. 10 00 

Levi S. Fulton 10 00 


88 THE HOSPITAL REVIEW 

RECAPITULATION. 

Subscriptions and cash donations $6,477 01 

Receipts from lunch tables, Dec. 10th 1,145 00 

Lunch tables, December 11th 583 46 

Mies Mumford's table 628 48 

Miss Hamilton's doll bazaar 265 83 

Cash for dolls returned 128 57 

Miss Eric Perkins' flower, candy and 

tea table 232 40 

Esmeralda," given by Eureka Club, 

December 15th 407 50 

$9,868 25 

Expenses 343 52 

Net $9,524 73 

MRS. "WM. H. PERKINS, Treasurer. 

•*• 


Mrs. J. P. Robinson, Geneseo, "in memory 

of an aged loved one," $ 1 00 

Miss H. J. Paul, St. Louis, Mo 1 50 

Chester Dewey Averell.Ogdensburg, four 

bricks 1 00 

Interest on deposit to December 1, 1884.. 22 12 

Contents of dear little Arthur Yates' 

bank, died April 16, 1879 3 09 

Contents of dear little Howard L. Yates' 

bank, died April 20, 1884 3 00 

In memory of Olive Joy Williams, from 

her bank on her birthday, December 

3,1885 2 00 

Emilv, Carrie, Sallie and Franklin Brew- 

"ster 5 00 

For " bricks " collected by Marion M. 

Reid: 

W. H. Reid, 50 cents; M. L. R., 25 cents; 

C. R. Reid, 55 cents; L. M. Boyce, 

25 cents ; Mrs. J. McCullough, 25 

cents; Miss Ida McCullough, 25 

cents; Mrs. K. F. Peabody, 25 

cents; Mildred E. Green, 25 cents; 

D. Walter Brown, 25 cents; Louise 

C.Winne, 25 cents; Henrietta Ward 

Allen, 50 cents; Mary Percival Allen, 

50 cents; Freeman Clarke Allen, 

50 cents; W. Stuart Smith, 3d, 

25 cents 4 50 

Sylvanus J. Macy, Jr 5 00 

Anna S. Buell, Frederick Churchill 

Buell, Belle F. Fuller, Jennie S. 

Fuller, Julia Churchill Fuller, William 

B. Fuller, Holley, N. Y., each 

one brick 1 50 

Mrs. Maltby Strong 5 00 

Mr. Brackett's change 88 

Isabel Hart's annual offering 5 00 

Coat money 30 

Miss Grace B. Terry 2 00 

Arthur C. Wales, Syracuse, one brick 25 

Howard S. Wales, Syracuse, N. Y., one 

brick 25 

Marguerita Allen Ely, ' 'for the sick children" 

5 00 

Mrs. Lewis H. Lee ..10 00 

Jeannette, George and Elizabeth, each 

two bricks 150 

A Friend 50 

Walter Weldon, one brick $ 25 

Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, Brockport 5 00 

Mrs. Thomas Knowles 2 0ft 

Warren E. Woodworth, one brick 25 

Eight bricks from little Fannie Converse 

Gould, Brooklyn 2 00 

Mrs. L. L. R. Pitkin 3 00 

Two bricks from Freddie DePuy, Tioga, 

Ont., four years old, one of which 

he earned... .. 50> 

Herbert Siddons Mann's second collection 

for bricks: 

Mr. and Mrs. J. Siddons, $5.00; Miss Jessie 

Post, 50 cents; Nellie Lattimore, 

25 cents; Flossie Lattimore. 

25 cents; Rev. N. M. Mann, 50 

cents; Mrs. J. M. Wells, 25 cents; 

Mrs. B. L. Hovey, 25 cents; Grace 

Landsberg, 25 cents; Professor J. 

G. Allen, 50 cents; Mr. Lewis E. 

Smith, 25 cents; Mr. G. Herbert 

Smith, 25 cents; Mrs. H. S. Greenleaf, 

$1; Marion M. Reid, 25 cents; 

Miss M. A. Siddons, 50 cents; Mrs. 

M. B. Anderson, 25 cents, Ella^ 

Ruger Siddons, Buffalo, 50 cents; 

Mr. A. Ernisse, 50 cents; Mrs. A. 

Gordon, 25 cents; Mrs. Georg& 

Patton, 25 cents; Mrs. I. F. Quinby, 

25 cents; Mrs. C. T. Amsden, 

25 cents; Miss Morse, 50 cents; 

Mrs. L. Andrews, 50 cents; Mrs. J. 

Bower, 25 cents; Mrs. I. K. B. 

Goodwin, 25 cents; Mrs. M. N.Van 

Zandt, 25 cents: Mrs. M. A. Clinton, 

25 cents; Mrs. H. ^. Hebard, 

25 cents; Miss Alice H. Rogers, 25 

cents; Henry D. Rogers, 25 cents; 

Louis F. Rogers, 25 cents; Philip 

Hoeret, 25 cents; In memory of 

Henry C. Vogel, $1; Miss Fannie 

Shaffer, 25 cents; Mrs. E. S. Hayward, 

50 cents; Freddie Smith, 25 

cents; Mrs. H. A. Ward, 25 cents; 

Miss Alice Ward, 25 cents; Mrs. 

Joseph T. Ailing, 25 cents; Addie 

M. Feiock. 50 cents; Hermmichen 

Krieg, 25 cents; Fannie Beck, 25 

cents; Florence Newman, 25 cents; 

Miss Mamie Mutschler, 25 cents; 

Mrs. F. A. Frick, 25 cents; Susie 

Shaner, 25 cents; Frank W. Lamer 

is, 35 cents; Frederick Schlegel, 

25 cents; Hattie Voshall, 25 cents. 21 00 

Miss E. J. Wilson, Wolcott; for mortar to 

put Herbert Siddons Mann's bricks 

together 1 00 

Agnes B. Raines, earned, for 3 bricks... 75 

Agnes B. Raines, one brick for her 

brother, Eugene Raines, on his 

birthday 25 

William Curtis Clark, one brick 25 

Amon Bronson, Jr., one brick 25 

Gabrielle Clark 10 00 

Arthur S. Hamilton, Jr., four bricks.... 1 00 

Children's Pavilion table at Donation ,£jjfl 

Festival, by Mrs. C. H. Angel 806 05. 

For bricks collected by Laurance Angel: 

Miss Dunlap, $1; Miss Breck, 25 cents: 

Miss Hunter, 25 cents; Mrs. Wood-


Messrs. Buck & Sanger, boned turkey, vegetables. 

Mrs. A. Collins, ducks. 

" E. Curtis, chicken salad. 

C. B. Hatch, lobster salad. 

Andrew Hatch, chicken salad. 

James I. Hatch, chicken salad. 

Jonas Jones, chicken salad. 

J. Woodbury, chicken salad. 

A. G. Yates, lobster salad, shell oysters. 

" F. Elwood, chicken salad, cake. 

" Whitney, chicken salad, cake and jelly. 

" Ira Pratt, cabbage salad. 

" E. Glen, chicken pie, celery. 

•' R. Furman, chicken {pie, Saratoga potatoes. 

B. E. Chase, chicken pie, lemon and 

quince jelly, mince pie, gold fish, 

pickles, olives. 

Miss H. Mumford, boiled ham. 

Mrs. Erickson Perkins, Charlotte Russe, jelly. 

" W. Dickinson, Charlotte Russe, biscuit. 

" J. Robbing, Charlotte Russe. 

" P. B. Hulett, Charlotte Russe. 

" M. Barker, Charlotte Russe. 

" H. M. Ellsworth, Charlotte Russe, pies, 

olives, nuts, grapes, cranberries. 

" James Kelly, Charlotte Russe. 

" H. E. Green, Charlotte Russe. 

" Merchant, cake. 

" Archer, cake. 

" Wheeler, cake. 

" G. Elliott, cake. 

" H. Hills, cake. 

" G. S. Killip, cake. 

Miss J. Thompson, cake, pickles. 

" Amsden. cake. 

Mrs. G. Doran, 200 biscuit. 

" F. Amsden, 50 hot rolls. 

" S. G. Andrews, bread, tongue, jelly, hot 

rolls. 

" N. Foote, napkins. 

Miss Lovecraft, cheese, fruit, cake. 

Mrs. Hiram Sibley, oranges. 

" D. B Beach, ham, chocolate cake. 

" S. Dewey, biscuit. 

Mr. S. Millman, oysters. 

Mr. J. Catlin, grapes. 

St. Peter's and Christ Church Table of Mrs. 

J. W. Stebbins, Mrs. J. Moreau Smith, 

Mrs. David Hoyt, Mrs. C. C. Merrlman, 

Din. S. H. Brlgga, Mrs. Samnel Wilder, 

Mrs. Vm. K. Ohapln, Hrs. Herbert 

Ward, Mrs.G.G.Clarkson, Mrs. 

C. 8. Whlttemore, Mrs. E.Werner, 

nn. E. H. Pratt, Mrs. Ward 

Clarke, TfKrm. Whitney Williams, 

Mrs. E. C. Warren, 

Mrs. George Raines. 

Mra. Freeman Clarke, ducks, salad, jelly, turkey. 

" L. A. Ward, chicken pie. 

" M. K. Woodbury, lemon jelly. 

" L. F. Ward, 150 biscuit, turkey. 


Mrs. Julia S. Bacon, $1.50. 

" George Thompson, 2 bottles olives. 

" David Little, $3. 

•' Fred Allen, cake. 

" C. R. Parsons, turkey. 

Wm. Waters, chicken salad. 

H. W. Brown, grapes. 

Wm. R. Corris, olives. 

C. S. Whittemore, Charlotte Russe. 

Herbert Ward, chicken salad. 

S. H. Briggs, 200 biscuit. 

Miss Clara Wales, flowers and celery, jelly, 

S ickles. 

. Mann, turkey. 

" J. W. Stebbins, Charlotte Russe. 

" Lillie Boyce, apples, jelly, Saratoga potatoes. 

" George Raines, champagne ham. 

•' S. Quimby, cake. 

" C. E. Morris, 2 loaves cake. 

" E. W. Osborn, 2 dishes scalloped potatoes. 

•• Frank Ward, turkey. 

" Wm. Lamb, lemon jelly, rolls. 

" E. C. Warren, turkey. 

D. M. Dewey, 2 loaves pound cake. 

W. Winn, cake, mince pie. 

Mary Breck, biscuit. 

Wm K. Chapin, nut cake. 

Hiram Sibley, $5; 2 dishes Charlotte 

Russe, pickles. 

" W. Williams, flowers. 

Miss A. Wright, Charlotte Russe. 

" J. C. Kalbfleisch, cake. 

" J. White, flowers. 

" E. H. Pratt, turkey. 

' W. H. Ward, turkey. 

" Jacob Howe, Charlotte Russe. 

" George Clarkson, pickles, jelly, Chili 

sauce. 

" Carter Wilder, turkey, cranberries. 

" J. W. Whitney, chicken salad. 

" Samuel Wilder, scalloped potatoes, roast 

beef, chicken pie. 

" J. M. Smith, 4 ducks, pickles. 

Miss Dunlap, 6 gallons ice cream. 

Mrs. Henry Hart, pickles, celery, catsup. 

" David Hoyt, biscuit, jelly, pickles. 

" Wm. Corning, large basket celery, 

flowers. 

" Stowell, Charlotte Russe. 

Miss M. A. Smith, turkey. 

Mrs. M. B. Sanford, celery, cake. 

" Wm. Pitkin. olives. 

" E. H. Scranton, Charlotte Russe. 

" George Archer, Charlotte Russe. 

" F. DeWitt Clarke, 2 dishes Charlotte 

Russe. 

" J. E. Hayden, ham. 

" Ward Clarke, turkey 

il 

S. D. Bentley, pickles. 

" E. K. Warren, olives. 

" Wm. Raines, pickles and cake. 

Mr. W. Moore, $1. 

Mrs. Wm. Kimball, chicken salad. 

Mr. I. Teall, chicken salad. 

" E. M. Higgins, quantity Florida oranges. . 

" George Selden, several dishes cranberries. 

" Hayward, sweet cream. 

" E. M. Smith, turkey. 

" J. H. Kelly, biscuit.


The table of Mr*. J. H. Brewster, Mrs. H. 

H. Morse and Mrs. J. G. Hart. 

Mrs. J. Van Epps, wine jelly. 

" Edward Harris, chicken salad. 

" J. C. Hart, pickles, oysters, grapes. 

" J. H. Brewster, chicken pie, mince pie, 

pickles. 

" H. H. Morse, ducks, pickles. 

" 0. E. Hart, chicken pie. 

'" A. S. Mann, ham. 

" D. Gordon, cake. 

" J. M. Pitkin, large basket oranges, 

bananas, grapes. 

" C. E. Robinson, jelly. 

" S. Brewster, turkey. 

" A. S. Hamilton, olives, cranberries. 

Mr. Frost, large box of flowers. 

Mrs. T. D. Snyder, olives. 

Mr. I. Teall, Charlotte Russe, salad. 

Mrs. Eugene Curtis, cranberries, oranges. 

Miss Dunlap, 2 dishes salad. 

Mrs. F. A. Macomber, salad. 

" J. R. Chamberlin, cake. 

" H. F. Huntington, ducks. 

Miss Danforth, turkey. 

Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins, turkey. 

" J. Hill, cake. 

" J. Oothout, biscuits. 

" Wm. Hoyt, Saratoga potatoes. 

Miss A. Mumford, biscuits. 

Mrs. Glover, nut cake. 

" H. C. Brewster, biscuits, celery. 

" Mrs. Joseph Curtis, biscuits, celery. 

Mr. Wm. N. Cogswell, turkey. 

Mrs. S. Bentley, biscuits. 

" C. C. Morse, turkey. 

Miss Jennie Benjamin, 4 quarts cream and a 

roll of delicious butter. 

Mrs. Whitney, croquettes. 

Miss Mumford, chicken salad. 

Mr. F. SchegeL flowers. 

The Plymouth Church Table of Mrs. L. P. Ross, 

Mrs. George Wanzer, Mrs. Henry Brewster, 

Mrs. H. M. Moseley, Mrs. Wm. R. Seward, 

Mrs. B. W. Peck and Mrs. J. B. Moseley. 

Mrs. L. W. Gage, biscuits. 

" Galusha Phillips, ham. 

C. E. Darrow, cake, jelly. 

H. M. Moseley, cake. 

George Wanzer, Charlotte Russe. 

W. S. Osgood, 200 shell oysters. 

Wm. R. Seward, chicken pie, fruit. 

A. H. Still, 1 gallon cream. 

Jerome Keyes, chicken salad. 

Henry Brewster, turkey. 

Wm. N. Emerson, turkey. 

A. F. Atwood, mince pie. 

L, P. Ross, chicken salad, biscuit, Japanese 

napkins and Saratoga potatoes. 

D. R. Clark, biscuit and jelly. 

H. C. Hooker, Charlotte Russe and 

celery. 

Davis, pickles. 

W. W. Williamson, scalloped oysters. 

Frederick Sherwood, scalloped oysters. 

Fosch, cherry pies. 

A. M. Moser, chicken pie and mashed potatoes. 


Mrs. J. B. Moseley, mince pies and jelly. 

" Joseph Farley, turkey. 

" S F. Hess, Charlotte Russe. 

" Hiram Hoyt, chicken pie, 

B. H. Clark, turkey. 

" E. B. Booth, Charlotte Russe. 

H. N. Allen, biscuit. 

E. W. Peck, chicken salad. 

J. H. Kent, ducks. 

" D. A. Robbins, Charlotte Russe. 

" C. R. Page, cake. 

" M. Stilwell, scalloped oysters. 

" C. E. Hoyt, chicken salad. 

Miss Mary Smith, Charlotte Russe. 

" H. Cauley, $1. 

" Miss M. Porter, $2. 

Mrs. Samuel Porter, $1. 

The First Baptist Church Table of Mrs. H. Munn. 

Mrs. John Stewart, Mrs. H. L.. Achilles, Mrs. 

C. B. Achilles, Mrs. K. P. Shedd and 

Mrs. H. L. Smith. 

Mrs. Edwin Griffin, ham. 

" W. N. Sage, chicken pie, cranberries. 

" Dr. Howell, chicken pie. 

" Otis H. Robinson, turkejr. 

" A. S. Lane, 2 turkeys, olives. 

" A. Pomeroy, turkey. 

" Dr. Stark, turkey. 

C. A. Morse, turkey. 

T. Depuy, turkey. 

C. T. Crouch, turkey. 

Dr. Davis, ducks. 

Henry Munn, ducks, pies, pickles. 

J. F. Whitbeck, Charlotte Russe. 

W. A. Stevens, Charlotte Russe. 

" L. Sunderlin.OharlotteRusse, cranberries. 

" E. O. Sage, Charlotte Russe, pies. 

" John L. Sage, Charlotte Russe. 

" J. H. Grant, Charlotte Russe. 

" F. Bishop, Charlotte Russe. 

" A. H. Cole, Charlotte Russe. 

Miss F. Kendrick, salad. 

Mrs. A. W. Mudge. salad. 

" J. W. Warrant, salad. 

" A. H. Strong, celery. 

" I. H. McGuire, vegetables. 

,, C. A. Phillips, vegetables. 

" H. L. Achilles, vegetables. 

" W. H. Montgomery, vegetables. 

" A. G. Mudge, vegetables. 

" H. L. Brewster, biscuit. 

S. Coleman, biscuit. 

E. H. Shedd, biscuit. 

Caldwell, biscuit. 

C. Aiken. biscuit. 

Roworth, biscuit. 

L. R. Satterlee, cake. 

C. T. Converse, cake. 

S. R. Robinson, cake. 

F. Moshier, cake. 

. C. J. Baldwin, cake. 

S. A. Ellis, cake. 

J. Aiken, pies. 

L. Tower, pies. 

R. Bowman, pies. 

R. F. Hopwood, fruit. 

H. E. Robbins, fruit.



Mrs. S. V. Pryor, fruit. 

E. R. Dusenbury, fruit. 

K. P. Shedd, fruit, nuts, raisins, olives, 

cheese. 

" C. J. Russell, flowers 

" E. N. Curtice, pies. 

" C. B. Achilles, jellies, pickles. 

" W. H. Crennell, jellies. 

J. S. Barker, f 1. 

Lutchford, tl. 

A. R. Pritchard, $5. 

H. L. Smith, Saratoga potatoes. 

E. R. Andrews, $2. 

L. S. Chapin, lobster salad. 

Tfce First Presbyterian Church Table of Mrs. J. 

T. Fox, Mrs. Elmer Smith, Mrs. E. P. 

Gould. Mrs. E. Fnrman and 

Miss Nichols. 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, chicken pie, pickles, pickled 

peaches. 

" E. Furman, Charlotte Russe, brown 

bread, cake. 

J. Schleyer, ham. 

Miss Wilkins, flowers. 

" M. Marshall, pies. 

Mrs. C. E. Robinson, 3 glasses jelly. 

" W. H. Perkins, Saratoga potatoes. 

" B. D. McAlpine, ham. 

" D. M. Hough, 2 ducks. 

Miss Stone, Charlotte Russe. 

Mrs. G. Gould, cake, pickles, 

" W. H. Ross-Lewin, chicken pie. 

" D. Walbridge, chicken pie. 

" L. Farrar, chicken pie. 

" H. D. Williams, Charlotte Russe. 

" W. Gormley, lobster salad. 

" Mrs. H. C. Roberts, 6 mince pies. 

Mr. T. D. Aldrich, large bunch bananas, four 

doz. oranges. 

Mrs. G. E. Jennings, cake. 

" W. Loss, ducks, pickles. 

Miss Nichols, 2 loaves cake. 

Mrs. G. Brady, $2. 

" B Sheldon, turkey. 

" M. Strong, turkey. 

" J. Durand, plum pudding, flowers, biscuit. 

" Wm. Mudgett, $1. 

" A. Backus, 1 doz. celery. 

Mr. Boston, 20(t oysters. 

Mrs. J. Backus, olives. 

Mr. G. M. Curtis, cream. 

Mr. Salter, flowers. 

Mr. East, turkey. 

Mr. I. Teall, Charlotte Russe. 

Mis. J. T. FOX, 2 loaves cake. 

" E. P. Gould, chicken salad, pickles. 

" F. Bottum, cake. 

The Fancy Table of Miss A. S. ITIumford, 

Mrs. William E. Hoyt, Mis* Lois Whitney, 

Mrs. Joslah Anstlce and Miss 

A. E. M. Wild. 

Miss Whitney, china and fancy work. 

Mrs. A. D. Fiske, New York, fancy work. 

Mrs. G. W. Smith, New York, vases and fancy 

articles. 

Miss Julia Whitney, fancy work. 

Miss F. A. Smith, New York, fancy work. 

Mrs. S. G. Andrews, two silk quilts, 2 babies' 

silk hoods, 1 dozen boxes of cake, 1 

dozen quarts pickles and fruits, 4 dozen 

shells. 

Mrs. James M. Whitney, five tidies. 

" Eugene Glen child's comforter. 

" Abbott Furness, laundry cushion, 2 trays, 

knit slippers. 

Miss Eastman, one cushion, 5 penwipers. 

Mrs E. Howell, painting in water colors. 

" Mrs. Henry R. Smith, open-work handkerchief. 

" Mrs. Clarke Copeland, open-work handkerchief. 

" Mrs. William E. Hoyt, fancy and useful 

articles, jellies, etc. 

" Mrs. James W. Whitney, bottle of catsup, 

jar of raspberry jam. strawberry 

jam. 

" Herbert Ward, jar of strawberries. 

" D. B. Beach, cherries and pickles. 

Miss Emma E. Lampert, two paintings in 

water colors. 

" Evershed, child's skirt, pickles. 

Mrs. William Raines, pickles. 

Miss Wales, pickles. 

Mrs. Hiram Sibley. gherkins. 

" WilliamS. Ward, 2 plum puddings. 

•• Theodore Bacon, 4 jars pickles and preserves. 

A Friend, 4 glasses crab-apple jelly. 

A Friend, 1 jar of jelly. 

Mrs. Gilman H. Perkins, ten quarts pickles, 4 

quarts preserved fruits. 

" H. Austin Brewster, 3 quarts pickles. 

" Welsh, 4 quarts preserved fruits. 

" Thomas Chester, 6 aprons, cake napkins, 

set qf table mats, 1 pair silk stockings, 

20 boxes wax tapers, jar rose leaves. 

'• Thomas H. Wood, Utica, pair infant's 

socks. 

Maria Lofthouse, 4 pairs mittens, 4 pairs wristlets. 

Mrs. Joseph Craig, Brockport, 3 pairs mittens. 

' Myron Adams, bag and duster. 2 fancy 

baskets. 

" W. J.Averell, Ogdensburg, bath blanket. 

" W. H. Perkins, 3 work bags, hood. 

Philip G. Mumford, 2 sets reins, 1 pair garters. 

Miss A. Thompson, Ballston, apron. 

Little Fanny Whittlesey. match receiver. 

Miss Florence Osgood, 2 sachets, needle-book, 

shoe-button case. 

Mrs. Day, 2 child's skirts. 

" Joseph Frost, Boston, 2 match receivers. 

" Edward Cozzens, baby blanket, silk stockings. 

" E. V. Stoddard, bread and milk set, 8 

pieces. 

Miss Alice Montgomery, sachet. 

Mrs. D. H. Griffith, table scarf. 

Miss Griffith, fish napkin. 

Miss Julia Griffith, 2 flannel skirts. 

Mrs. E. D. Smith, 4 mops. 

" Josiah Anstice, cake napkin, apron, 2 

mirrors, 2 flat-irons.



" M. Strong, fancy baskets, string bag. 

" M. M. Mathews, 4 spool cases, 2 needle 

books. 

" Stedman, 2 fancy baskets. 

" H. F, Huntington, 2 cooking aprons, 2 

fancy baskets, infant's wrappers. 

R. M. Myers & Co., wrapping paper, tags and 

string. 

Miss Julia Cozzens, 4 cheese napkins. 

" Watson, baby blanket. 

Mrs. Mary Frost, 3 wash cloths. 2 pairs mitiens. 

" Pamelia Frost, pair silk socks, pair Saxony 

socks. 

Miss Frost, 6 pin and needle cushions. 

Mrs. Thomas McBlain, 3 worsted hoods; infant's 

silk hood. 

Miss Lottie Carson, painted shovel, 2 thimble 

cases. 

Mrs. Samuel Gould, Pongee apron. 

" Alexander Thompson, embroidered pillow. 

" M. A. Phelan, table scarf, fancy palm-leaf 

fan. 

Miss Jeffrey, 2 hats, blotter, painted picture 

frame. 

Mrs. A. B. Smith, 2 painted slates, knitting 

bag, tidy. 

" B. R. Lawrance, 7 emery bags, 8 penwipers, 

2 bags. 

" William S. Little, 1 Nightengale. 

" J. H. Brewster, pitcher, cologne bottle, 

vase, lion, canoe basket. 

" J. H. Grant, cardigan jacket. 

" George Moss, toilet set. 

" Dr. W. W Reid, infant's socks, knit 

slippers. 

" H. N. Mayer, 1 pair infant's skirts. 

" Clarke Johnston, toilet cushion. 

" J C. Van Epps. fancy bag, 2 sachets, 1 

twine bag. 

" Louis Chapin, 3 laundry cushions. 

Miss Augusta Whitney, 3 painted blotters. 

" Wild, fancy articles. 

" Saxton, 2 pairs mittens. 

" Anderson, 1 calendar, 5 pin cushions. 

" Nellie Wild, cardigan jacket. 

Mrs John Ely. 2 clothes bags, thread case, 6 

lavender balls. 

" Mrs. James H. Wild, trimming for skirt. 

Miss Field, quantity of candy. 

Mrs. Ed. Walbridge, toilet set. 

Mis Whittlesey, 2 paper and string bags. 

" F. C. Whittlesey, work basket. 

'' E. Benedict, New York, cardigan jacket. 

Mrs. Babcock, fascinator. 

Miss Ada H. Kent, large fancy basket. 

Mrs. Edward Harris, work basket. 

Miss Alice Whittlesey, 2 sachets. 

" Reid, 2 glasses crab-apple jelly, 1 quince 

Mrs. M. Landsberg, shoe bag. 

Colonel J. Keller, New York, 1| dozen Puritan 

banners. 

Miss Mumford, sundries. 

Burke, Fitz Simons. Hone & Co., services of 

two men and use of red flannel and 

showcase. 

Mrs. H. F. Huntingdon and the ladies who so 

kindly assisted her in making four 

comfortables. 

Sibley, Lindsay & Curr, 1 piece of cheese cloth, 

7 bats of cotton. 

The Children's Pavilion 

Table of Mrs. C. H. Angel, assisted by Mrs. 

John Ely,Edith Peck, Julia Kobinson,Bessle 

Backus, Madge Backus, Helen Williams, 

Victoria Raymond, Laura Williams, 

Emma Wilder, Maggie Ashley, 

Mabel "Waters, Connie Wilder, Frity 

Ward, Lanrance Angel, miss 

Gaffney, Miss Page, Miss 

Laura Page Ward. 

Mrs. John Evans, 4 pairs socks, doll's cape. 

" Bristol, 6 dolls capes. 

Grace Hathaway, dolls' shoes. 

Mrs. Mudge; sachet bag. 

Connie Wilder, 2 dolls' caps, $1 for toys. 

Mrs. John Collier, Tarn O'Shanter, 

hood, 5 pairs crochetted slippers. 

M. A. S., 2 crochetted skirts, 2 pairs socks. 

Louisa Upton, 8 Japanese sachet bags. 

Alice Upton, hood. 

Laura Page Ward, hood, home-made candy. 

Florence Howard, sachet bag. 

Mrs. T. Chester, 2 straw boxes. 

" Robert Mathews, 5 match safes, cat's pictures. 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews, pair mittens, 3 spool 

wagons, needle book, worsted cap, 

stockings. 

Mrs. H. Stedman, doll. 

" Pells, lamp shade. 

" H. L. Ward, baby's sack and 2 sachet 

bags. ' 

" George Sweet, sachet bag. 

" S. G. Andrews, brush broom case, 3 silk 

bags. 

" Arthur Robinson, lamp shades. 

Miss Bellows, silk mittens. 

Hattie Thomas, blotter, doll's cape. 

Charles Backus, two paintings. 

Grace Kennedy, sachet, fancy articles. 

Mrs. Manning, painted sachet. 

Mrs. Dr Saunders, key holder. 

" Mrs. Sarah F. Galusha, doll's bedstead, 

mattress and pillows. 

Laura Williams, 2 sachets, 8 pair balls, 5 holders, 

2 button bags, 8 blotters, 2 lamp 

shades, several dolls, Tarn O'Shanters. 

Mrs. George Williams, tidy. 

Miss Madden, pin cushion. 

Helen Williams,3 perfume cards,8 dolls' cheese 

cloth comforters,' 8 Tarn O'Shanters, 

gilded cone, tidy. 

Mary W. Lee, paper cutter. 

Miss Backus, one-half dozen dolls' hats. 

Bessie Backus, 1 doll's straw bortnet, 1 set doll's 

furniture. 

Mrs. E. M. Day, 2 pairs knit slippers. 

Miss Loveridge, Japanese basket. 

Miss Fannie Field, 4 satin sachets. 

Miss Budlong, satin sachet. 

Mrs. C. R. Kingsley, hand-painted bag.



worth, for Marie and Florence, 50 

cents; Janie Ward, 25 cents; Jasper 

Ward, 25 cents; Mrs. Watters, 

for Mabel and Edith, 50 cents; Mr. 

J. C. Wright, 25 cents; Ray Hill 

White, 25 cents; Margie White, 36 

cents; Bessie Hale, 25 cents; Edith 

Hale, 25 cents; Mrs. Hungerford, 

25 cents; Mrs. Macomber, $5; Miss 

L. Killip, $1; a friend, 25 cents: 

Mrs. F. Woodworth, 25 cents; Miss 

F. Ward, 25 cents; Harry Bacon, 

50 cents: Leonard Bacon, 50 cents; 

Louisa Selden, 25 cents; Sayre Sel- 

Hen. 25 cents; Henry R. Selden. 25 

cents; Mrs. L. A. Ward, 25 cents; 

Miss M. A. Hayden, 25 cents; Mr. 

W. D. Page. 25 cents; Mrs. Freeman 

Clarke, for Henrietta and Mary P. 

Allen, Willie and Mabel H. Webb, 

$1; Miss Marie Atkinson, 50 cents; 

Stella Briggs, 50cts.; Flora Briggs, 

50 centp; Gertrude Perkins,$l; Mrs. 

W. H. Ward, 50 cents; Margarette 

Duane Seldon, 25 cents; Bessie Selden, 

25 cents; Charlotte Ward. 25 

cents; Miss Wright. 25 cents; a 

friend, 25 cts.; Mr. Myron G. Peck, 

50 cents; Margarette Mackey, 25 

cents; Harry Mackey, 25 cents; 

Louis Mackey, 25 cents; Clara 

Landsberg, 25 cents; Mrs. H. S. 

Ward, 25 cents; Mrs. J. M. Whitney, 

25 cents; Miss Backus. 25 cts.; 

Mr. Hay wood Hawks, 25 cents; 

Fannie Rawlings, 25 cents; Bessie 

Wild, 25 cents; Grace Sitterly, 25 

cents; Mr. T. Brown, 25 cents; 

Cecile Kimball, 25 cents; Ernest 

Kimball, 25 cents; Miss Watson, 25 

cents; Went worth Hoyt, 25 cents; 

Emily Louisa Farley, 25 cents; Joseph 

A. Farley, 25 cents; Mr. R. 

Clarke, 25 cents; Mabel Goss, 25 

cents; Walter Goss, 25 cents; Helen 

Goss, 25 cents; Albert Goss, 25 

cents; In memory of John Sage 

Darrow. 25 cents; Bessie Fitch, 50 

cents; Russell Packer Yates, $1; 

Mrs. E. N. Buell, $1; Sabie Furman, 

25 cents; Helen Furman. 25 cents; 

Fanny Furman, 25 cents; Edith 

Waite, 25 cents; Mrs. W. Angel,25 

cents; George, 25 cents; Endicott 

Tucker, $1; Mr. Charles Wetmqre, 

25 cents; Marie Louisa Barry, 25 

cents; Willie Barry, 25 cents: Fred 

Barry, 25 cents; Rose Barry, 25 

cents; Miss Lily Bloss, 25 cents; 

Frank Pitkin, 25 cents; Douglass 

Furness,25 cents; Miriam Converse, 

25 cents; Frank W. Converse, 25 

cents; Herbert Beakley, 25 cents; 

a friend, 50 cents; Miss Reid, 25 

cents; Mrs. Chester, 50 cents; 

Muriel Smith. 50 cents; E. Smith 

Munn, 25 cents; Emily Lester 

Munn, 25 cents; Gabrielle Clarke, 

50 cents; Philip Mumford, 50 cents; 

Joseph Curtis, $1; Marie Brewster, 

$1; Fritz Ward, 50 cents; Laurance 

Angel. $1. 40 00 

Louise Hallenbeck, Geneva 2 00 

Mrs. M. A. Gibson 25 

From Mrs. I. W. Swift, Fort Lowell,Arizona, 

in memory of John Throop 

Martin, born in Rochester, January 

22. 1884, died January 22,1885.... 5 00 




Contributions to this fund are urgently so-» 

licited, and should be sent to Mrs. Robert 



the Hospital. 

Donations for Refreshment and Fancy 

Tables. 

The Jews Table of Mrs. M. A. Stern and 

Mrs. D. M. Ganon. 

Mrs. David Abeles, $1. 

" A. Fechenbach, $1. 

" Lichtenstein R. Marshall, $2. 

" Mrs. Henry Schwartz, $1. 

" Leo Stein, $2. 

" Max Lo wen thai, $2. 

" E. Steinfeld, fruit. 

" Wald, $1. 

" S. J. Beirs, $3. 

" Mahler, $1.50. 

" Marx David, $1. 

" N. Stein, $1.50. 

U. J. Hecht, $2. 

Max Brickner, $1. 

H. Goodman, $1. 

I. M. Sloman, puffs. 

Jos. Schrier, $1. 

A. Rosenberg, $2. 

E. S. Ettenheimer, $3. 

Jos. Katz, ducks. 

Van Berg, wine jelly. 

F. Hayes, tongue, cranberries. 

N. Levi, chicken salad. 

L. Adler, lobster salad. 

M. Dalman, $2. 

I. A. Baum, $2. 

A. Pickard, $2. 

H. C. Cohn, $1. 

Moore, $1.50. 

Huyler's, baskets of candy. 

Mrs. J. Wisner, 6 doz. rolls, 6 loaves bread. 

" M. Myers, $1. 

Salter & Newdale, flowers. 

Mr. Shaefer, 4 bottles olives. 

Mr. I. Teall, Charlotte Russe. 

" C. Salmon, olives. 

Mrs. Abe Adler, $1. 

" N. Levison, $1. 

" Newhafer, waffles. 

" N. Newhafer. $1. 

" L. Steifel, $1. 

" Rosenberg, $1. 

" I. J. Beir. $1.



Mi's. M. Dinkelspiel, $1. 

" S. Goldsmith, $1. 

" H. Seligman, $1. 

" M. Goldsmith, $1. 

" Simon Adler, celery, confectionery. 

" Hochstetter, 6 pies. 

" Lipsky, $2. 

" H. Lempert, $1. 

" M. Garson, celery and confectionery. 

" Morris Lempert, cranberry jelly, Saratoga 

potatoes. 

Morris Myers, cake. 

J. Marx, $1. 

D. Rosenberg, $1. 

L. Marx, waffles. 

E. J. Beir, $2. 

B. Monk. cake. 

Jacobi, $1. 

Herman Rosenberg, $2. 

A. Stern, $2. 

I. Michaels, $2. 

G. Wile, $1. 

L. Block, Charlotte Russe. 

Cauffman, $3. 

E. Strauss, $3. 

Isaac Wile, $2. 

Sol. Adler, white grapes, bananas. 

L. Griesheimer. $1. 

Asher Beir, $1. 

Straussman, $1. 

J. W. Rosenthal, $1. 

A. Britonstool, $1. 

Jacob Ettenheimer, $2. 

Kerstein, $2. 

B. Rothschild, $3. 

S. Rice, Charlotte Russe. 

Henry Garson, pickles. 

S. Guggenheimer, $1. 

J. Shatz, $1. 

A. Hays, $1. 

Max Mock, $1. 

I. M. Hays, turkey. 

D. M. Garson, #3. 

T. Myers, turkey. 

Jack Myers, fruit. 

M. M. Myers, fruit. 

L. Blum, $1. 

Jos. Garson. 2 tongues. 

H. Leiter, lobster salad. 

Wm, Miller, ducks. 

Felix Wolff, $2. 

S. Hays, $1. 

M. Schwartz, $1. 

A. Oppenheimer, $1. 

H. Rosenberg, $3. 

Samuel Meyers, $1. 

S. Savage, $1. 

S. Stein, $1. 

S. M. Benjamin, $1. 

L. W. Moore, $1. 

B. Herman, chickens, turkeys. 

Moses Hays, turkey. 

L. Ettenheimer, $1. 

Elias Wollf, $5. 

M. Garson, $2. 

H. Goodman, Sr., 2 chickens. 

Bronner, $2. 

Goodman, $2. 

S. Stern, $2. 

M, A. Stern, $3, 

Mrs. H. Michaels, chicken salad. 

" Julius Wile, $2. 

" Pincow, $1. 

" Sichel, cake. 

'• L. Garson, $2. 

" Thalheimer, $1. 

" Bachman. $3. 

" M. J. Wile, $2. 

The St. Luke's Church Table of Mrs. Wm. 

Eastwood, Mrs. E. W. Williams, Mrs. 

George D. Williams, Mrs. Wilson 

Soule and Mrs. C. A. Benedict. 

Mis. J. M. Whitney, cake, biscuit, celery. 

" F. Whittlesey, cake. 

" Alfred Ely, Charlotte Russe, cake, pickles. 

Miss Shepard, cake. 

Mrs. J. Harrison, cake. 

" W. Gibbons, cake. 

•' B. R. Lawrance, cake, celery. 

" H. J. Moore, cake, turkey. 

" Ephraim Moore, crullers. 

" W. C. Rowley, cake. 

" C. B. Smith, cake, biscuit. 

Miss Frost, cake, flowers. 

Mrs. Dr. Dayfoot, cakes. 

" Roswefi. Hart, cake. 

Miss Hawks, cakes. 

Mrs. George D. Williams, salad dressing, cranberries. 

" Wm. Churchill, cranberries, tongue. 

" Rebasz, cranberries. 

" Q. Van Voorhis, biscuit, tongues. 

" E. E. Sill, tongues. 

Miss P. Ely, chicken pies. 

Mrs. J. Anstice, chicken pie. 

" H. F. Montgomery, chicken pie. 

" J. O. Howard, ducks. 

" R. Mathews, ducks, biscuit. 

•' J. E. Wolcott, ducks. 

" A. J. Johnson, $2. 

" J. C. Moore, ham. 

" G. W. Fisher, pork, beans, apple sauce. 

" H. Anstice, $2. 

" D. Little, $2.50. 

" J. King, Saratoga chips. 

" Chas. Fitch. Saratoga chips. 

" W. S. Tower, Saratoga chips. 

Miss Gregory, biscuit and Saratoga chips. 

" Anderson, biscuit. 

Mrs. H. Osgood, $3. 

" W. S. Whittlesey, biscuit. 

" Chas. Ford, scalloped oysters. 

" J. M. Winslow, 50 cts. 

" E. W. Williams, gal. pickled oysters. 

" Wilbur Griffin, lobster salad. 

•' Wilson Soule, lobster salad, grapes, apples, 

pears, flowers, plants. 

" Mrs. Peek, $1. 

" C. A. Babcock, ducks, Charlotte Russe. 

" H. P. Brewster, 2 ducks, Charlotte Russe. 

'" A. Hoyt, wine jelly, Charlotte Russe, 

" H. B. Hathaway, Charlotte Russe. 

" T. Raines, 2 doz. ind., Charlotte Russe. 

" D. A. Watson, $5. 

Miss Saxton, wine jelly. 

Mr. J. M. Backus, oranges, grapes, bananas. 

Miss C. Rochester, $1. 

Mrs. Henry Hoyt, 2 doz. orgnges.


" Hilton Clarke, 2 do«. lemons. 

Wm. H. Reid, 2 dishes chicken salad. 

I „ £ otter > 2 disheB chicken salad. 

TJ Can nin S' 3 dishes chicken salad. 

Aiex. Thompson, chicken salad. 

w - L. Dewey, chicken salad, 

w. C. Lewis, chicken salad. 

C. F. Smith, chicken salad. 

Miss Bellows, $1.50. 

Mrs. R. Lewis, chicken salad. 

" R. Coats, chicken salad. 

S. B. Raymond, chicken salad. 

" F. Gorton, chicken salad. 

" P. Farley, turkey. 

" E. M. Moore, turkey. 

" O. Rogers, turkey. 

" J. H. Rochester, turkey. 

Miss A. Wild, $3. 

Mrs. J. E. Jones, turkey. 

" G. H. Perkins, turkey, pickles, pears, 

celery. 

Mr. J. Mogridge, 2 doz. celery. 

Mrs. C. A. Benedict, chickens. 

" D. Knapp, 2 quarts cream. 

" J. Eastman, cream. 

Mr. Chas. Salmon, cheese. 

Messrs. Steele & A very, 400 Japanese napkins. 

Powers Hotel, cut sugar. 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews, $1. 

Miss M. H Montgomery, butter balls. 

Mrs. Geo. El wood, cut sugar. 

" Christy, lemon ice. 

" L. Kelly, chow-chow, jelly, olives. 

" Pitkin, 6 bottles olives. 

" Wm. Eastwood, mince pies, squash pies, 

pickles. 

" S. F. Jenkins, $5. 

The Unlversallst Church Table of Mrs. H. 

8. Hanford, Mrs. E. B. Chace, Mrs. 

E. J. Sugru, Mrs. W. M. McFarlin, 

Mrs. G. M. Sweet, and 

Mrs. Douglas Bly. 

Mrs. James Sargent, turkey, cranberries, jelly. 

" J. Moses, biscuit, turkey, cocoanut cake. 

" E. B. Diamond, turkey. 

" Mrs. Frederick Cook, Turkey, Charlotte 

Russe. 

F. M. McFarlin, pair ducks. 

Thos. Bolton, pair ducks. 

I. F. Force, chicken salad. 

H. G. Wisner, chicken salad. 

Giles, chicken salad. 

S. H. Murray, Charlotte Russe. 

Douglas Bly, chicken salad, lobster salad. 

S. Remington, chicken pie, jelly. 

B. McFarlin, chicken pie. 

P. B. Smith, chicken pie. 

G. W. Crouch, chicken pie. 

W. F. Balkham, Charlotte Rasse, angel's 

food. 

E. J. Sugru, Charlotte Russe. 

J. M. Dunning, Charlotte Russe. 

K. Clinton, Charlotte Russe, biscuit. 

Grover, cake. 

F. Ritter, cake. 

Geo. Crouch, Jr., cake. 

J. G. Ardrey, cake. 


Mrs. J. A. Hinds, oranges and grapes. 

" Gifford, pickles. 

Woodbury & Lavique, bottle of olives. 

" L. Benton, Biscuit. 

" S. M. Chapman, biscuit. 

" R. Milliman, biscuit. 

" D. Hovey, celery. 

•' Geo. Sweet, pickles, wine jelly 

" H. S. Hanford, mashed potatoes, squash, 

turnips. 

" Seth Green, lemon pies. 

" Asa Saxe, mince and pumpkin pies. 

" W. I. Hanford, mince and pumpkin pies. 

Mr. J. W. Graves, nuts, oranges. 

Mr. J. W. Catlin, Saratoga potatoes, celery. 

coffee. 

Mrs. R. W. West, 200 napkins. 

" Lewis Chase, ham. 

" H. S. Greenleaf, $5. 

•' E. C. Williams, $i. 

Mr. Joseph A. Stull, $3. 

Mrs. E. B. Chase, $5. 

Salter Bros., flowers. 

F. Lavigne, flowers. 

Mrs. H. Clinton, six cans fruit. 

The Methodist Church Table of Mrs. C. W. 

Gray, Mrs. C. R. Bennett, Mrs. S. A. 

Lattlmore, Mrs. E. T. Green, Mrs. 

Dr. Thurber, Mrs. James Gray, 

Mrs. Fred Beach and Mrs. 

John Wright. 

Mrs. James Vick, Sr., ham, pickles. 

James C. Gray, Chicken pie. 

I. Gibbard, chicken pie. 

A. B. Lamberton, turkey, pickles. 

E. Ocumpaugh, turkey. 

Capt , Levi Fulton, turkey. 

Mrs. Prizer, Charlotte Russe. 

R. W. Chambers, Charlotte Russe. 

F* H. Beach, Charlotte Russe. 

D. W. Dunham, Charlotte Russe. 

C. W. Gray, Charlotte Russe, lemon 

jelly, 4 pies. 

S. A. Lattimore, Charlotte Russe, lemon 

S. French, tongue, cake. 

" S. H. Lowe, tongue, cake. 

" M. Scofield, tongue, cake. 

" F. A. Taylor, biscuit, cranberry sauce. 

" D W. Wright, biscuit, cake. 

Mr. N. Osborn, turkey. 

Mrs. D. Davenport, fruit, flowers. 

Mrs. W. G. Bell, money. 

Mr. Harned, brown bread, chicken salad. 

Mr. John Hall, flowers. 

Mr. Burgher, turkey. 

Miss Hallie Davis, chicken pie. 

M. H. Dutcher, celery. 

Mrs. D. W. Brooks, chicken pie. 

•' Dr. Cregg, fruit. 

" M. J. Barton, chicken salad, cranberries, 

pickles. 

" Dagg, turkey. 

" Toad, fruit. 

" Phelps, cream. 

Miss Coffie, mashed potatoes. 

" Woods, fruit.



Mrs. Saunders, celery. 

" Wisner, pie. 

" Bascom, cake. 

" Tully, biscuit. 

" Truman, jelly. 

" N. L. Button, turkey, flowers. 

" Skelly, chicken pie. 

•' Austin, Charlotte Russe. 

" Smith, cake. 

" Loomis, pie. 

" A. W. Hayes, Charlotte Russe. 

" Thurber, brown bread. 

" Bennett, cake, cranberries, baked potatoes. 

Mr. Cotchefer, roast beef. 

Mr. Harned, 5 doz. biscuit. 

Mr. T. McMillan, cranberries. 

Mr. Cramer, 100 napkins. 

Forchler Bros., honey. 

Mr. James Baker, turkey. 

Mrs. Henry, cake. 

Mr. Peacock, celery. 

Mrs. Wm. H. Brown, Charlotte Russe. 

" Mrs. Philander Davis, mashed potatoes. 

" A. King, honey. 

" Charles Salmon, Turkey. 

" James Vick, Jr.. turkey. 

" John Wright, chicken pie. 

" Dr. A. Mandeville, roast chicken. 

William Cdrris, 2 chickens. 

Mrs. Hiram Davis, chicken salad. 

" Z. P. Taylor, chicken salad. 

" Jas. Laney, Charlotte Russe. 

" Richard Freeman, Charlotte Russe. 

" Goodwin, Charlotte Russe. 

Miss Whitehead, Charlotte Russe. 

Mrs. H. B. Harrison, Charlotte Russe. 

" Geo. Crissey, ham. 

" Wm. Morrison, pies, celery. 

" John Morrison, Saratoga potatoes. 

" A. Y. Hagen, pies. 

" Henry S. Brown, pies. 

" W. R. Peters, cake. 

" James Chase, cake. 

" M. R. Corlette, cake. 

" N. P. Osborn, cake. 

" J. W. Mudgett, cake. 

•' James Vick, cut flowers. 

The Brick Church table of Mrs. S. G. Arnold, 

Mrs. Alfred Wright, Mrs. T. A. 

Newton, Mrs. John Sage, Mrs. Calvin 

Laney, Mrs. John Humburch, 

Mrs. F. Fenn, Mrs. E. 

Webster, Mrs. C. Lowe, 

Mrs. E. Wellington 

and Mrs. P. B. 

Bradley. 

Mrs. S. J. Arnold, chicken salad. 

" Alfred Wright, 3 ducks, 2 squash pies, 2 

quarts cream, cranberry jelly. 

" A. Prentice, Charlotte Russe. 

" S. Steele, 4 mince pies, tongue. 

" L. A. Pratt, 2 cocoanut pies. 

" Charles Angle, scalloped oysters. 

" C. F. Weaver, turkey. 

" E. Chapin, 2 loaves brown bread, Saratoga 

potatoes. 

" T. A. Newton, 2 dishes Charlotte Russe, 

pickles. 

Mrs. H. H. Babcock, turkey. 

" Clarke Johnston, 2 lemon pies. 

Raymond & Rogers, turkey. 

Mrs. D. Thurston, brown bread. 

" B. L. Hovey, mashed potatoes, squash. 

" J. Disbrow, chicken pie. 

" St. John, chicken salad. 

" T. Johnson, cake. 

" H. Mackie, 2 ducks. 

" A. Clark, cider jelly, cranberry sauce. 

" Clarence Arnold, cranberry jelly. 

" J. Skilman, 100 biscuits. 

Mr. T. Aldrich, oysters, oranges. 

Mrs. A. V. Smith, scalloped oysters. 

Mr. B. Herman, turkey. 

Mrs. F. Embry, chicken pie. 

" C. Laney, olives. 

" Wm. Carson, oysters. 

" L. Chapin, 2 pumpkin pies. 

Miss Maty Shaw, Charlotte Russe. 

Mrs. L. Wetmore, celery. 

" D. T. Hunt, lemon pie. 

M. L. Kentner, cocoanut cake. 

Killie, milk and cream. 

J. W. Hatch, Charlotte Russe. 

John Sage, Charlotte Russe. 

A. Whitcomb, 2 ducks. 

J. Humburch, spiced currants. 

E. Wellington, olives. 

C. Bromley, ham. 

F. S. Eddy, cake, jelly. 

W. W. Perry, Charlotte Russe. 

E. Webster, chicken salad. 

H. Mathews, pickles. 

J. Davis, tongue. 

G. Storms, 2 ducks. 

H. Lampert, nut cake. 

E. M. Upton, turkey. 

R. Ashley, nut cake. 

Mrs. J. Marsh, $2. 

E. Lyon, |2. 

H. Strong, $2. 

G. Motley, $2. 

J. O. Hall, $1. 

Mrs. G. D. Warren, $1. 

E. P. .Reed, $1. 

Graves, 50 cts. 

The St. Paul's Church Table of Mrs. B. E. 

Chase, Mrs. A. G. Tates, Mrs. H. M. Ellsworth, 

Mrs. G. Weldon, Mrs. W. H. 

Pratt, Mrs. W. C. Dickinson, Mrs. 

T. G. Moulson, Mrs. H. E. 

Green, Mrs. J. Woodbury, 

Mrs. Jonas Jones and 

Mrs. J. Allen. 

White Bros, center piece. 

Ernest Hart, bills of fare. 

Salter Bros, cut flowers. 

A. G. Oilman, fruit. 

Mra. H. H. Warner, turkey, Charlotte Russe, 

pies. 

" James Laney, turkey. 

" James Comerford, tnrkey. 

" ^'J& âlsey, turkey, chicken salad. 

" G. Weldon, turkey, wine jelly, grapes. 

" T. G. Moulson, turkey, ducks, butter. 

" W. H. Platt, turkey, pork and beans. 

" T. Evershed, turkey, pickles.


Victoria Raymond. $5. 

Miss Anna Gaffney, candy. 

Miss Florence Osgood, 2 boxes of caromels. 

*Yity Ward, toys for the trees, 6 dozen candles. 

Mrs. L. A. Ward, 3 foot cushions, 1 table 

spread. 

Miss Selden, basket, 6 ponnds toasted almonds. 

Miss Emily Smith, sachet bag, 2 blotters, 1 

doll. 

Mrs. S. Wilder, handkerchief case. 

Jennie and Helen Osgood, dressed doll. 

Steele & Avery, 20 books. 

Miss Clarice Jeffrey, 2 padlock keyholders, 1 

painted thermometer, 2 painted frames. 

Mrs. Arnold, candy. 

J. George Cramer, boxes for candy. 

Mr. George Clarke, $5. 

Willie Webb, $5. 

Edith Peck, 2 painted blotters, 1 painted photograph 

case. 

Mrs. Edward Peck, 2 sachets, dish of chocolates. 

Miss Fannie Corbett and Miss Fitchtner, 6 cotton-batting 

dolls, 2 colored boy dolls. 

Freeman Clarke Allen, $5. 

Miss Florence and Minnie Montgomery, fan, 

wall pocket 

Miss Kross, New York, apron. 

T. W. Whittlesey, figs. 

Mr. C. H. Higgins, basket of very nice oranges. 

Maggie Ashley, pin cushions and animals. 

Miss Lois Whitney and Mrs. W J. Ashley, 

scrap basket, blotters, wall pockets, 

etc. 

Mrs. Dumble, sachet bag, pin cushion. 

Miss Hattie FairchUd, engagement books. 

Mrs. W. J. Ashley, shaving cases, etc. 

Mrs. L. F. Ward, plush paper bag. 

Laorance Angel, toys, etc. 

Mrs. C. H. Angel, fancy articles, candy, etc. 

Frost Brothers, fir tree 

Nanny Brinkerhoof, cologne, 3 twine cases, 

duster. 

Mr. Lee, 3 pairs doll's shoes. 

M. Louisa Backus, 3 sachet bags. 

Miss Julia Backus, 4 court-plaster cases, 2 

sachet bags, paper dolls. 

Florence McAlpine, paper dolls. 

Grace Hay wood, paper dolls. 

Bessie Kingman, 1 dozen dinner cards, painted 

paper cutter, sachet bag. 

Madge Backus, dusters, 3 doll's comforters. 

Mrs. Baker, painted plate and fan. 

" Elder, Detroit, shaving case. 

Maria Elder, Detroit, fans, lamp shade. 

Mrs. Dupuy, Detroit, sachet bag. 

" Wooley, Detroit, sachet bag. 

Miss Fannie Wilder, fan and china basket. 

Mabel Waters, 8 silk hoods for dolls. 

A Friend, silk rattle. 

Mrs. E. D Smith, 1 dozen mops. 

" Maltby Strong, 6 baskets. 

Miss Ailing, 2 spool wagons. 

Miss Annice, 2 paintings. 

Bessie Raines, 2 jewel cases. 2 shell necklaces. 

Mrs. Reuben Hills, glass vase, 2 painted eggs. 

" Folsom, 2 key-holders, painted dust-pan, 

2 eye-glass cases. 

A Friend, 6 dusters and bags, 4 sachet bags. 

Mrs. Frost, knitted wash cloth. 


C. B. Woodworth & Co., 4 dozen perfumes. 

From Mrs. Wetmore's class of little girls at 

Brick Church, $3.50. 

Mr. Eastwood, 6 pairs dolls' shoes. 

Mrs. Whitney Williams, 2 sachets, 2 button 

bags, doll's skirt. 

" Russell, sachet bag. 

" Sidney Avery, doll's bedstead, dressing 

table. 

In memory of Lillian Isabel Morse and Kate 

Louisa Howland through Mrs. George 

R. Morse, Mrs. Henry S. Howland and 

Mrs. G. W. Rennelson, $15. 

Dolls* Fair of Mrs. A. 8. Hamilton and Mr«. C. H. 

Babcock. 

Steele and Avery, 1,000 envelopes. 

Democrat and Chronicle, 1,000 invitations,, 

and printing the same. 

Dolls' beds were dressed by : Miss Alice Hunter, 

2; Mrs. Furness, Mrs. E. C Warren, Mrs. 

W. H. Mathews, Mrs. J. W Canfield, Miss 

Alice Sage, Mrs Rogers, Mrs. Dr. Wood and 

Miss Clara Wales. 

Dolls'cradles dressed by: Miss Lottie Dewev 

Mrs. J. H. Emery. 

Dolls'baby baskets: Mrs. living Morse, Mrs. 

Thomas Hawks, Mrs. Jennie Christy. 

Miss Clara Landsberj;, 1 bow and arrow. 

Mrs. C. F. Paine, 5u0 cornucopias of popcorn. 

and candy. 

Miss Cauley, 10 dolls' hats. 

Mrs. M. A. Phelan, 8 dolls' hats, 1 fan. 

Miss Fairchild, painting, 8 brush brooms. 

Mrs. M. D. Fenner, painting 2 rag dolls. 

Mr. K. Y. Ailing, painting 1 rag doll. 

Miss Ada Kent, painting 1 rag doll 

Mr. C. C. Burns, painting 2 rag dolls. 

Dolls dressed by Miss Ella Sage and friends, 

14; Mrs. H. H. Howard, 13; Misis Richmond, 

Mrs Van Husen, Miss Rowena Sill, 2; Miss 

Grace Hathaway, Miss Florence Peake, Miss 

M. Louise Stowell, 2; Mrs. C. P. Ford, Misses 

Joiner, 2; Miss St. Jermain, Miss Wray, 2; 

Miss Martha Joiner, Mius Eleanor Watson, Mrs 

W. A. Hubbard, Jr., Miss Bella Tart, Miss 

Alice Duncan, Miss Grace Solomon, Miss 

Waite, Miss Alice Churchill, Miss Edith Peck 

Mrs. GW. Sill, Mrs. Tuttle, Mrs. Robinson, 

Mrs. Eddy, Miss Webster, Mrs. Hough, 3- Mrs 

Dally, Mrs. E. Walbridge, Young ladies of Miss 

Bliss's school, Mrs. B. P. Ward, Mrs. Tolrnan 

Miss P. S. Ely, Miss Hattie E Smith, 3; Miss 

Frank Keener, Miss Eva Stevenson, Mrs. A. 

Luetchford, Miss Annie L McEvans 2* Miss 

Mary D. Hart, Miss Lillie E. Walkrr, Miss 

Elizabeth F. Reid, Miss Jennie Reid. Mrs S 

McDowell; Mrs S. Briggs,2; Mrs. E Pratt, the 

Misses Pratt. 4; Mrs. Culver, Mrs. Thomas 

Hawks, Mrs. McKindley, Mrs Liddle, Mrs A 

Clarke. Mrs. Canfield, Mrs. Henry Mathews 

Mrs. Whitney Williams, Mrs. George Williams 

Miss Mamie Strong, Miss Alice Ives, Miss Ella 

Gould, Mrs. J. W. Whitney, Miss Bella Brew^ 

ster, 6; Mrs. Tower, Miss Bellows, 5; Mrs. C 

Babcock, Mrs. Amon Bronson, Mrs. G W Sill 

and Miss A. Bronson, 23 ; Miss Mamie Stone*" 

Miss Hollister, Miss Lemon, Mrs. George Morse


The Flower and Candy Table of Mr*. Erickson 

Perkins, miss Wilder, miss Watson, 

Miss Platt, Miss Brewster, 

Mrs. A. H. Thompson, miss 

Macy, miss Kutli Bart 

and miss B. Watson. 

ftjiss J. Anstice and Miss Wales, chrysanthemums. 

Mr. William S. Kimball, large quantity of 

fine roses, choice orchid. 

Flowers from Miss Whitney, Miss Julia 

Whitney, Mrs. A. Erickson, Mrs. W. L. Halsey, 

Mrs. William Corning, Mrs. B. Perkins, 

Miss Wilder, White Brothers, Neudahl & Holmede. 

F. Schlegel, Mr. C. P. Barry, Mr. John 

Neugent, Frost Brothers, Mr. King and Salter 

Brothers. 

Candy from Mr. J. Alexander Hayden. 

Library for the Children's Pavilion. 

Our thoughtful friend, Mrs. John Durand, 

hr.s contributed a valuable collection 

of beautifully illustrated children's books as 

3. nucleus of a children's library. She also 

has sent some very nice games, which are to 

be kept till the Pavilion is opened. The 

following is a list of the books : 

•'Marigold GardeD," pictures and rhymes, 

by Kate Greenaway. 

"St. Nicholas, " bound, vol. V. 

" Pepper and Salt," by Howard Pyle. 

" Four Feet, Two Feet and No Feet," by 

Laura E. Richards. 

"Cat Stories," by H. H. 

" Little People of the Air," by the authors of 

'•Little Playfellows." 

"Babylaiid, 1885." 

•' Songs and Rhymes for the Little Ones," by 

Mary J. Morrison. 

" The Viking Bodleys," by Horace E. Scudder. 

"Little People's Art Book," by Francis 

•'Boz." and Bodfish. 

" The Lives of the Presidents of the United 

States," in words of one syllable, illustrated, 

by Helen W. Pierson. 

" Swiss Family Robinson." 

" Little Folks of Other Lands," by Fannie 

P. Cnaplin and Mrs. F. A. Humphrey. 

" My Wife's Relations," by H. A. H. 

" Nurse Bundle." 

"Polly and I." 

" Mr. Stubb's Brother." 

" Out of Town," by F. E. Weatherly. illustrated 

in color by Linnie "Watt. 

" A, B, C " drawn in colors, by T. Pym. 

"Child's Bible Story Book." 

"Cheerful Sundays." 

" Sunday Evening Hour." 

In addition to the above books are the 

three following, printed on linen : 

"Noah's Ark."' 

" Every Baby's ABC." 

" Little Bo Peep." 


Accompanying the books were a box of 

paints, a checker board, the game of rainbow 

backgammon, a case of English jackstraws, 

and a box of sectional building 

blocks. 

Games were also sent by Louise and 

Flora Robinson. 


DECEMBER, 1885. 

Bascom & Morgan, adv., $5 ; Mrs. W. E. 

Hoyt, 62 cents; Mrs. J. Laney, 62 cents ; 

D. Leary, 62cents; D. Leary, adv., $10, by 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews $16 86 

Mrs. A. D. Blair (2 subs.,) $1.24 ; Mrs. R. 

D. Charles, Cuba, 50 cents ; Mrs. W. S. 

Dewey, 62 cents; Mrs. J. A. Eastman. 62 

cents ; Mrs. W. H. Mandeville, Olean, $1 ; 

Miss H. J. Paul, St. Louis, Mo., 50 cents; 

Mrs. J. W. Searing, Saugerties, 50 cents ; 

Mrs. D. A. Watson, 63 cents ; Mrs. F. D. 

Ward, Geneseo, $1 ; sale of papers, 20 cents 

—by Treasurer |6 81 

Mrs. S. G Andrews, 62 cents; Mrs. R. B. 

Ashley, 62 cents; Mrs. N. Ayeault, 62 

cents ; Mrs. J. Austice, 63 cents; Mrs. G. 

W. Archer, 62 cents; Miss Julia Adams, 

62 cents ; Mrs. M. B. Anderson, 62 cents ; 

Mrs. F. D. Ailing, 62 cents : Mrs. C. H. Angel, 

62 cents ; Mrs. J. M. Backus, 62 cents; 

Mrs. H. P. Brewster, 62 cents : Mrs. J. J. 

Bausch, 62 cents ; Mrs. Horace Brewster, 

62 cents: Miss R. M. Booth, for Miss 

Graves, Vergennes, Vt., 50 cents ; Miss H. 

H. Backus, 62 cents ; Mr. H. F. Bush, 62 

cents ; Mrs. William H. Brown, 62 cents; 

Mrs. S. M. Ben?amin, 63 cents ; Miss Julia 

Barton, 62 cents ; Mr. James Brackett, 62 

cents; Mrs G. L. Beardslee, St. Paul, 

Minn., 50 cents ; J. H. Boucher, $1 ; Mrs. 

J. H. Brewster, 62 cents ; Mrs. Beebe for 

Mrs. J. Buell, Holley, 50 cents ; Mrs. Oscar 

Craig, 62 cents ; Mrs. B. E. Chase, 62 cents ; 

Mrs. T.Chester, 62 cents; Mrs. L. S. Chapin, 

62 cents ; Mrs. William Churchill, 62 cents ; 

Mrs. J. A. Collier, 62 cents ; Mrs. D. Cole. 

65 cents ; Mrs J Cauffman, 62 cents : Mr. 

J. Craighead. 62 cents; Mrs. J. W. Caufield, 

62 cents ; Mrs. E. T. Curtis, 62 cents ; 

Mrs. C. Depuy, Tioga, Ont , 50 cents; Mrs. 

J. Durand. 62 cents ; Mrs. J A. Daly, 62 

cents; E. Darrow, 62 cents ; Mrs. Alfred 

Ely, 75 cents; Mrs. Colonel Emerson, 62 

cents ; Mrs. L. D. Ely, 62 cents ; Mrs. W. 

N. Emerson, 62 cents; Mrs W. Eastwood, 

62 cents ; Mrs. R. French, $1 ; Mrs. J. T. 

Fox, 62 cents; Mrs. G. A. Furness, 62 

cents ; Miss E. C. Field, Albion, 50 cents; 

Miss S. Frost, 62 cents ; Mrs F. Gorton, 75 

cents; Mrs. E. Griffen, $1 25 ; Mrs E.Glen, 

65 cents; Mrs. J. H. Grant, $1.24 ; Mrs. N. 

H. Galusha, $1 25 ; Mrs. D M. Gordon, 62 

cents; Mrs. D M. Hough, 65 cents; Mrs. 

A. S. Hamilton, 62 cents; Mrs. E. 8. Hay



ward, T5 cents; Mrs. H. E- Hooker, 62 

cents; Mrs. J. C. Hart for Mrs. D. B. Eells, 

Cleveland, Ohio, 50 cents ; Mrs. A. E. Hoyt, 

62 cents ; Mrs. H. R. Hart, 62 cents ; Mrs. 

J. O. Howard, 62 cents; Mrs. D. Hoyt, Jr., 

62 cents; Mrs. H. F. Huntington, 62 cents; 

Mrs. J. H. Hill 62 cents ; Mrs. E E. Howell, 

62 cents ; Mrs. Charles Jones, Geneseo. 

$1; Miss A. Jeffrey, 62 cents; Mrs. A. J. 

Johnson, 62 cents ; Mrs. W. S. Kimball, 62 

cents ; Mrs. T. Knowles. 62 cents ; Mrs. J. 

H. Helly, 62 cents ; MissL. King, 62 cents; 

Mrs. W. L. Kingman, 62 cents: Mrs. M. 

Landsberg, 62 cents ; Mrs. S. A. Lattimore, 

62 cents : Mrs. L. H. Lee, 62 cents ; Miss C. 

C. Levet, 62 cents; Mrs. A. Luetchford, 62 

cents ; Miss A. S. Mumford, 62 cents ; Mrs. 

A. G. Mudge, 62 cents; Mrs. Dr. Moore, 

62 cents; Mrs W. H. Mathews, 62 cents ; 

Mrs. H. M. Montgomery, 62 cents ; Mrs. C. 

C. Morse, 62 cents ; Mrs. C. C. Merriman, 

62 cents ; W. C. Morey, 75 cents ; Mrs. S. 

A. Merriain, 62 cents. Mrs. F. M. McFarlin, 

62 cents; R. Milliman, 62 cents ; Mrs. 

H. C. Munn, 62 cents ; Mrs. T. Meyer, 63 

cents ; Mrs. J. H. Martindale, $ 1.25 ; Mrs. 

E. Moore, 62 cents; Mrs. A. McVean, 62 

cents ; Mrs. J. Nichols. 62 cents ; Mrs. G. 

W. Pratt, 62 cents; Mrs. C. F. Pond, 62 

cents ; Mrs. R. W. Peck, 62 cents; Miss H. 

E. Phelps, 62 cents; Dr. J. O. Roe, 62 cents; 

Mrs. O. H. Robinson, 62 cents; Mrs. George 

Raines, 62 cents; Mrs. L P. Ross, $1.25 ; 

M.F. Reynolds, 62 cents: Miss C. L. Rochester, 

68 cents; Mrs. W. H Reid, 75 cents ; 

Mrs. D. K. Robinson, 62 cents ; Mrs. J. H. 

Rochester, 62 cents ; Mrs. W. N. Sage. 62 

cents; Mrs. H. F. Smith, 62 cents ; Mrs. J. 

Shatz, 62 cents; Mrs. S. C. Steele, 62 

cents ; Mrs. T. D. Snyder, 62 cents ; Mrs. 

D E. Sackett, 62 cents: Mrs. A. Thompson, 

62 cents ; Miss E. Thompkins, 62 cents; 

Mrs. Z. VanVoorhis, 62 cents; Mrs. J. V. 

Van Ingen, 62 cents ; Mrs. W. W. Varney, 

62 cents; Mrs. E. C. Warren, 62 cents; 

Mrs. A. Wright, 62 cents ; Mrs. F. Woodworth, 

62 cents ; Miss C. Wales, 62 cents ; 

Arthur C. Wales. Syracuse, 50 cents ; Miss 

M. J. Watson, 62 cents ; Mrs. H. Wilkins, 

62 cents , Mrs. George Weldon, 62 cents ; 

Mrs J. M. Whitney, 62 cents ; Mrs. G. G. 

Wanzer. 62 cents; Mrs. A. C. Wilder, $1.25: 

Mrs. S. D. Walbridge, 62 cents ; Mrs.W. H. 

Ward, 62 cents; Mrs. H. D. Williams, 62 

cents : Mrs. L. A. Ward, 62 cents; Mrs. C. 

/Wait, 6i cents ; Mrs L. F. Ward, 62 cents, 

Miss Whitney, 61 cents—by Treasurer, December 

10th and 11th $91 00 

Donations for December. 

Mrs. U. C, Rogers, Albion, reading matter. 

" C. H. Chamberlin, Oakfield, quilt. 

" S. J. Arnold, quilt 

" Dr. Stoddard. bab> y s wrap 

" John E. Baker, old cotton. 

Friends, old cotton. 

Mrs. E. E. Lord, reading matter. 

" CM. Lee, reading matter. 

Mr. J. Poole, 1 bbl. oat meal. 

Mrs. Franklin Brewster, checkerboard, dice, 

dominos. 

" J H. Marfindale, orangto 

Miso Ellen Field, oranges for nurses. 

Mrs. Dr. Strong, box of oranges and reading 

matter. 

Moore & Cole, a quantity of grapes. 

Grace and Mary Louise Lawrance, Christmas 

tree, trimmed. 

Miss Tompkins. oranges, candy, toys, 2 books. 

Enterprise Maunf acturing Co., meat cutter. 

Miss Cornelia W. Smith, books, 6 volumes. 

Louise and Flora Robinson, games. 

Mrs. John Durand, 25 choice and valuable 

books and 5 games for the Children's 

Pavilion. 

Mr. Thomas McBlain, 4 turkeys. 

Mr. Goetzman, turkey, celery. 

Hospital Pictures. 

The Christmas hours are fast waning. 

The day ushered in by St. Peter's chimes is 

almost past The well-filled stockings have 

been emptied, and around many a festive 

board thanks have been returned to Him 

who " setteth the solitary in families." Within 

the Hospital wards Christian ministries 

have cheered the desolate, and youthful 

hearts and smiling faces have illustrated 

the words of the Master : " It is more 

blessed to give than to receive." 

A part of our morning hours was spent 

with the invalids, and we would recall some 

of the scenes painted on memory's tablet. 

Within the Cross ward, a wan and wasted 

woman, suffering from internal cancer, 

weeps beside her cot, and tenderly gazes at 

a group of five plump, healthy-looking 

children, gathered near her. Perhaps, as she 

wipes away the tears, she is thinking of next 

Christmas, when her little flock may be a 

motherless band. Four of these she 

brought across the water from her'German 

home ; the baby was born in Rochester, 

and since its birth the mother has never 

been well. For months she has been an 

inmate of the Hospital. A wreath of evergreens 

and bright holly berries hangs upon 

her white bed curtains ; on the cot are two 

dolls, a box of handkerchiefs, a set of toy 

cups and saucers, and a little basket filled 

with fruit and candy. In a market basket



near by are a profusion of books and games. 

At the foot of the bed sits the oldest of the 

children, a manly boy of twelve and a half 

years, holding on his knee, in a fatherly 

manner, his baby sister, not two years old. 

Beside him are three other children, neatly 

and comfortably clad. Since the mother 

has been sick at the Hospital, the oldest 

boy has cooked for and cared for his brothers 

and sisters, while his father was at work 

earning means for their support. The baby 

sister, some months since, was accidentally 

burned, and for weeks the boy brought her 

a long distance every day in his arms, from 

his home to the City Hospital, that the 

wounds might be carefully dressed by a 

Hospital nurse. Visitors at the City Hospital 

were touched by the kind attentions 

of the boy to his sister, procured for him a 

baby carriage, visited the family at their 

home, provided them with warm clothing, 

and sent to their house as a Christmas gift 

a liberal supply of useful articles, toys and 

books. Christmas morning the boy has 

brought with him his brothers and sisters 

and a market basket filled with their Christmas 

gifts, to gladden the sick mother in the 

Hospital, and show her how kindly friends 

have remembered them. A recital of this 

story in the Hospital reception room draws 

from a kind-hearted friend a generous 

offering for the benefit of the family. 

Within the Female Surgical Ward are 

two sisters clad in fresh mourning, who, in 

memory of their mother, recently deceased, 

have brought Christmas wreaths and hung 

one on each cot in the ward. They are 

waiting the arrival of cake and ice cream, 

that with their own hands they may distribute 

their Christmas offering to each inmate 

of the Ward. The door bell rings, 

and a youthful Sabbath School teacher 

with fourteen of her pupils enters the ward, 

bringing materials for fancy work, books, 

toys and useful articles, Christmas gifts for 

the sick children in the Hospital. They 

gather around little Sarah, the colored 

, aby from the Orphan Asylum, who, in her 

plaster of Paris jacket, is propped up in her 

reclining chair, with her Topsy and other 

dolls and playthings about her, and the 

class from the Mission School sing a 

Christmas carol and distribute their gifts, 

and then remember the sick children in the 

other wards. As we leave the ward one of 

the inmates says to us : " We are a joyful, 

happy party here to-day, we must not think 

of sorrows." 

It is noon in the Male Surgical Ward. 

A tempting Christmas dinner has been provided 

for all the patients. In one corner 

of the room a wife who has come from 

Fairport to spend Christmas with her husband, 

who has a broken leg, sits on a cot beside 

him eating her dinner, and cheering 

her husband by her presence. A low table 

has been spread in the ward for Max 

Kraus, Tommy Heeney and Freddy Lyons. 

Soup, chicken, mashed potatoes and cranberries, 

with mince pie for dessert, have been 

placed before them, and they evidently appreciate 

it. As we take notes, one of them 

looks up archly and says : " Are you going 

to put the cranberries in?' 1 " Of course," we 

reply, " we would not leave out the cranberries." 

Turkeys, Christmas cards, games, books, 

and a profusion of grapes and oranges were 

sent as Christmas offerings to the invalids, 

and were fully appreciated by the recipients, 

who on festive days love to be remembered. 

Christmas Evening, 1885. 

••• 

The Rochester Club have donated to the 

City Hospital a wagon-load of magazines 

and papers, consisting of Harper's Monthly," 

London Graphics, Puck, Life, Tire Century, 

Atlantic Monthly, Galaxy, Spirit of the 

Times, Harper's Illustrated Weekly, Frank 

Leslies Illustrated Magazine, Punch, Daily 

Graphic, &c. These are in the custody of 

Misses Julia Robinson and Alice Peck, and 

every Saturday they carry selections from 

these and distribute them in the Hospital 

Wards among the patients, who greatly enjoy 

them.


• THE HOSPITAL REVIEW. 101 

At the Rochester City Hospital, December 7, 

1885, of fibrous pneumonia, L. P. Andrews, 


At the Rochester City Hospital, December 23, 

1885, of typhoid fever, Julia Fawolt, aged 17. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, December 

29, 1885, from overdose of hydrate chloral, 

taken before being brought to the hospital, 

Albert Wolf. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, December 

30, 1885, of senile decay. James Hayard. 


Number in Hospital Dec. lBt, 1885.... 102 



Number discharged during month 58 


" remaining Jan. 1st, 1886 98 160 

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I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME. 1 

VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y.. FEBRUARY 9, 1886. No. 7 

Faded. 

[The following exquisite lines given to a husband 

by his wife accompanied by her photograph, 

have never been published.] 

A picture of a faded face, 

Dear Love, I give to you— 

Not half so fair as in its youth— 

When first it met your view : 

And yet. my Darling, as you gaze 

Methinks you'll gladly trace 

The lines of many loving thoughts 

In Nellie's care-worn face ! 

The glossy braids you once admired 

Are sadly altered now— 

For time has wreathed a snowy crown 

And placed it on my brow— 

And yet, Dear Sharer of my Life, 

You'll feel 'tis sweetly true: 

Though raven locks have turned to white, 

I've grown gray—loving you ! 

My eyes have lost the sparkling light 

With which they brightly shone— 

When 'neath the moons of long ago 

We two, walked out alone— 

And yet through all the changing scenes 

Of old times and of new, 

In joy or grief, they've always beamed 

With tenderness for you ! 

My heart! You will not find it there- 

There is no magic art 

By which an image can be formed 

Of woman's loving heart— 

But Oh ! my husband, if you place 

Your hand upon your own, 

You'll feel it softly throbbing there. 

It could not beat alone ! 

NELLIE. 

The feet that took their first step 

upon a mother's knee, can never stray 

beyond the influence of her daily 

prayer.



Fancied Ailments. 

A well-known physician several years 

ago was spending his summer vacation 

at the country seat of a leader in public 

affairs, a man noted for his moral courage 

and powerful intellect. He was 

shocked on the evening of his arrival to 

see his host turn pale, stagger to the 

sofa, and gasp loudly for breath. The 

wife of the fainting man, a worn, wan 

little woman, quietly brought a glass 

of water, and stood by him until he recovered. 

He rose presently. " It is my heart, 

doctor. Agonizing pains! I am confident 

that- it is angina pectoris. My 

end will be a sudden one." 

" Does your physician ?"— began his 

guest, shocked and sympathetic. 

" N-no. But I know. The pain is 

simply intolerable." 

Professional etiquette kept the visitor 

silent, though he shrewdly suspected 

the pain was referable to flatulency. 

His host speedily recovered his spirits, 

and the evening passed pleasantly. 

The next morning, however, the great 

statesman appeared at the breakfasttable 

in a gloomy, irritable mood. The 

doors and windows were all shut, the 

temperature of the house was kept at 

fever-heat, and servants were scolded 

because, " knowing the condition of his 

lungs, they permitted draughts to 

enter." 

" I am convinced that I have all the 

premonitory symptoms of pneumonia," 

he insisted. His wife appeared, pale 

and heavy-eyed, having been up all 

night in attendance upon him. As he 

really had only a slight cold, he forgot 

it before noon. 

Almost every day brought some new 

symptoms of pneumonia, heart trouble 

or Bright's disease, which were his favorite 

ailments. When his guest left 

him, he bade him a solemn farewell, 

saying, " I shall make a sudden end, 

doctor. You'll see my death in the 

paper some morning, and I suppose 

you'll say, ' Poor Blank ! I wonder he 

held out so long !' 

" The man," said the doctor, in telling 

the story lately, " is living yet, and promises 

to reach a hale, hearty old age. 

But his wife is dead. She was not 

strong, and neither body nor mind 

could stand the wear and tear of his incessant 

complaints." 

This is not so extreme a case as may 

at first appear. It is so common a one 

that an eminent physician, who makes 

a specialty of nervous complaints, wrote 

a book descriptive of the patient with 

imaginary ailments, and his " victims," 

or nurses and family. 

Unoccupied women and men whose 

large interests in the world make them 

especially dread death, are most apt to 

exaggerate slight symptoms into dangerous 

diseases. One of the bravest of 

American soldiers would make his family 

wretched if he tore his finger with a 

pin or suffered from tooth-ache. 

" Human courage," said General Lee, 

" should rise to the height of human 

calamity." It should also, if it be genuine, 

sink to the level of sea-sickness or 

a bee-sting. 

God's Anvil. 

In the December Review was a request 

to publish the poem " God's Anvil," and to 

give the name of the author. It was written 

by Julius Sturm, a German poet. I saw 

it first in the second series of the " Hymns 

of the Ages," published by Ticknor & 

Fields, of Boston, in 1861. My impression 

is that he was a son of Johann Sturm, a 

German Philologist, who was born at 

Schleiden in 1507, and died at Strasbourg 

in 1589. His works were very numerous. 

His system of education exerted great influence 

throughout Germany. He was a 

Lutheran, but liberal to all who suffered 

for religious opinions. Miss Catharine 

Winkworth translated many of these German 

hymns—which breathe so much of 

genuine love and trust in God,when crushed 

with the deepest sorrow and affliction, as 

to enable one to say, in sweet submission: 

As God will !" 

And at his heaviest blows hold still." 

M.


Snow Birds. 

Youths' Companion. 

How changed the fields since when the summer 

skies 

Bent over them—a shield of tenderest blue ; 

"When from the grass, with* bright, wide-open 

eyes, 

Sweet violets looked through tears of sparkling 

dew! 

Then golden buttercup and silvery head 

Of dandelion nodded on the leas, 

As down and petal felt the soft, light tread 

Of feet unsandalled, of the summer breeze. 

Then on the morning silence rich did pour 

And plash and dimple showers of liquid 

sound ; 

A bobolink's mad fancy bubbled o'er. 

As if a shattered rainbow fell around. 

Through orchard trees a flash of orange flame 

Showed where the oriole hastened to his 

mate ; 

The ruby-throated humming-bird grew tame, 

And eame to rest him on the garden gate. 

But now the fields are blanketed with snow ; 

Smooth, white and soft as fleece of wool it 

lies, 

Or drifts before the biting winds that blow 

From cold, gray cloud-tents of the northern 

skies. 

From wood and orchard, leaf and bloom are 

gone ; 

To garden shrubs few seeds and berries 

cling; 

The nests are empty—all their tenants flown 

Until the coming of another spring. 

Through blinding snows, that fili the wintry 

air, 

A merry flock of piping birds appear ; 

From colder regions of the north they fare, 

To bring a hearty greeting of "good cheer." 

Who will not bless the rank, uncomely weeds 

That fill the untilled corners of the fence, 

To furnish forth a banquet of dry seeds,— 

For such a greeting but scant recompense ? 

ISAAC BASSETT CHOATE. 

The Opening of the Margaret Williamson 

Memorial Hospital. 

When we look around us, we who are 

living in China can see thousands who 

are daily suffering untold miseries 

through diseases that might be cured 

or alleviated by the Western doctor or 

surgeon. This is not because the native 

population have not the opportunity of 

availing themselvee of the science of 

the different medical gentlemen who 


107 

reside in the East, for in nearly every 

treaty port there are free hospitals, but, 

as a rule, the natives prefer to consnlt 

the ignorant Buddhist or Tauist priests, 

or the native doctor, who, as a rule, is 

still more ignorant 

The first dispensary that we know of 

was opened in Macao in 1820 by Dr. 

Morrison. Dr. Lockhart opened a hospital 

in connection with the London 

Missionary Society at Chusan in 1840, 

and another in Shanghai, which has 

been doing good work ever since. These 

were among the first, but scores have 

been opened in all parts of China since 

then. It was Dr. Lockhart's opinion 

that " the most important of all agencies 

forobtaining an entrance into Chinaseems 

to be the medical missionary." 

In the " Memorials of James Henderson, 

M. D.," the medical missionary to 

China, we find : 

" Although China has reached what 

some are pleased to call the highest degree 

of cultivation of which a nation is 

capable without the Gospel, it presents,. 

I believe, more physical suffering for 

want of medical knowledge, than any 

other nation on the face of the earth/, 

The prejudices of the country have 

deterred the women of China from taking 

advantage of foreign hospitals, for 

in China, even brothers and sisters do 

not freely associate after the boys commence 

their studies; there is then no 

wonder the women of China are not allowed, 

although suffering irom dire diseases, 

to take the advantages offered 

them by a foreign doctor. But this has 

now been overcome, and the first hospital 

exclusively for relieving tht sufferings 

of Chinese women was opened yesterday 

afternoon.—Shanghai Mercury, June, 

1885. 

•>«• 

" What are the last teeth that come ?" 

asked a Lynn teacher of her class in 

physiology. " False teeth, mum," replied 

a boy who had just waked up on 

the back seat. 

Frowns blight young children as, 

frosty nights blight young plants. 

«>» 

Do to-day thy nearest duty.



The Wolf Spider. 

Suddenly appears on the wall a dark 

gray fly or perhaps a beetle. It moves 

with wonderful quickness, but always 

by fits and starts, sometimes one way 

ana then another. All at once it darts 

a few inches from the wall and then 

flies back again to the same spot. This 

action is several times repeated, and is 

so quick that the creatures wings cannot 

be seen. I approach the wall more 

closely and find that the creature is 

neither fly nor beetle, nor even an insect. 

It is a hunting spider, and of 

course has no wings How then did it 

fly from the wall and back again ? I 

have long been familiar with these 

pretty and active spiders. I have often 

seen them slide cautiously towards a 

fly, leap upon it, and have a sharp tussle 

with it before it succumbed to the 

venomed fangs. Window sills, especially 

when facing southward, are happy 

hunting grounds for this spider. I have 

often seen spider and fly tumble together 

off the window sill, and presently 

the spider return still clasping its 

prey. It had saved itself from falling 

to the ground by spinning a thread as 

it rolled off the sill, and was able to regain 

its position by climbing up the 

thread. But until lately I had never 

seen it leap from a perpendicular wall, 

and to all appearances fly back again. 

The thread affords the means whereby 

this remarkable feat is performed. It 

is extremely elastic, and when the spider 

has reached the end of its leap the 

thread contracts and jerks it back again, 

just as a child throws a ball away from 

him and draws it back to his hand by 

an india-rubber thread which is attached 

to it. How I had failed to notice this 

action for so many years I cannot imagine. 

Even the common wolf spider 

will act in the same way. I canght a 

glimpse of the creature crouching in 

the wall under the shadow of a vine 

leaf, so that I could not identify it. 

Suddenly it darted from the wall and 

alighted on the ground at some little 

distance, the elastic thread causing it to 

describe a slow and graceful curve, just 

as if it had wings. As it darted from 

the wall I put the net over it, and, much 

to my surprise, found that it was no insect, 

but a wolf spider. — Longman's 

Magazine. 

—.



109 

THE HOSPITAL REVIEW- 

ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 9, 1886. 


We are going to have a grand jubilee, 

dear children, and we invite you all to our 

housewarming. You know the new Pavilion 

is at last finished, but we are not going 

to tell you a word about it, for we expect 

you all to come and see it for yourselves. 

You must bring ten cents as an admission 

fee, and we hope to show you where the 

dear little sick children are to be cared for. 

A great many of you have given bricks for 

this building, or contributed to the cot 

fund, and we want you all to feel you have 

a share in the Children's Pavilion. So. come 

one and all, on 

THURSDAY, THE ELEVENTH OF FKBRUARY, 

You must bring with you your young 

friends, your brothers and sisters, and your 

mothers and fathers. Everybody that feels 

a sympathy for sick children will be welcome. 

The Pavilion is to be beautifully trimmed 

and well lighted. In the lower ward there 

are to be ten tables, representing ten cots, 

and it is hoped enough will be made 

at each table to provide a cot and its furniture. 

These tables are to be in charge of young 

people dressed in Mikado costumes, and 

are to be supplied with a variety of fancy 

and housekeeping articles ; there will be a 

basket table, a paper table, and candy, 

popped corn and peanuts will be ready for 

the little ones. Some of the children who 

have worked for the Pavilion are trying to 

raise money to furnish a small room on the 

lower floor. 

The Pavilion will be open from two till 

ten p. M. Supper will be served from five 

till eight o'clock. The Euterpe Club will 

furnish music in the evening, and the 

children will dance, and sing some of the 

Mikado songs. We should be glad to have 

some of the little children who would like 

to dance come in fancy costumes, it would 

add so much to the beauty of the scene. 

Mrs. Robert Mathews will have a large 

card-board, illustrating, in an original way, 

the condition of the Pavilion fund. 

Those who have charge of the opening 

of the new Children's Pavilion hope towelcome 

a very large number of their friends, 

and they feel sure there are many who will 

respond to this invitation. 

A small admission fee of ten cents will be 

charged at the opening of the Pavilion. 

The Hospital Patients. 

Through the sharp frosty air, on the first 

morning of February, we wended our way 

to the City Hospital, and found most of the 

patients in their wards, as the cold blasts 

and slippery sidewalks offered few inducements 

to tempt the invalids to leave their 

comfortable quarters within the Hospital. 

Our first visit was in the Female Surgical 

Ward, where fifteen patients were receiving 

treatment. One death had occurred during 

the month, and that was a very sad 

one. Mrs. J., the German woman, had died 

of internal cancer. The aged German 

woman, known in the ward as grossmutter, 

had fallen in the hall and broken her arm. 

The accident occurred two weeks before 

this, and the old lady was doing as well as 

could be expected. Tilly had had another 

surgical operation ; this was the removal of 

another piece of diseased flesh. This poor 

girl has need of great patience to bear the 

repeated drawbacks that try her sorely. 

One patient was confined to her bed with 

an abscess. " Grandmother " W. was busy 

with her patchwork. A patient who a few 

weeks before had been knocked down by a 

horse and buggy, and had received scalp 

wounds, was improving. A woman suffering 

from an eruptive disease was slowly 

gaining. 

There were twenty-three patients in the 

Female Medical Ward. Every bed was oc-

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cupied. No death had occurred during 

the month. Four of the inmates were confined 

to their cots. One of them was a consumptive 

; two had cancers ; another had 

diseased kidneys. One of the cancer patients 

had recently undergone a surgical 

operation and appeared to be benefited by 

it; another patient who, three weeks before 

had submitted to a surgical operation, 

was up and around the ward. A patient, 

who for a long time had kept her bed, afflicted 

with some disease of the stomach, 

was up and dressed. One patient was convalescing 

from nervous prostration. 

Five of the twenty-two patients in the 

Male Medical Ward were confined to their 

cots, one of them had a sore throat ; another, 

a diseased heart ; a third, a German, 

had some abdominal trouble ; a fourth, inflammation 

of the eye, and a fifth was the 

eczema patient. There were no fever patients 

and no death had occurred in the 

ward. 

The Pavilions were both occupied, the one 

by a diphtheria patient, and the other by a 

man with a gangrenous foot. 

There were nineteen under treatment in 

the Male Surgical Ward. Two patients 

only were confined to their beds ; the one 

has a burnt leg that heals very slowly ; the 

other has an abscess. The painter who fell 

from the new building, opposite the Brick 

Church, had so far recovered as to have 

jjone home. The chimney-sweep had also 

left the hospital greatly improved. A man 

from Toronto had a broken jaw. He stated 

that when going to the depot at night, he 

was struck by a sand-bag and his jaw was 

broken. For three weeks he had taken only 

liquids, but he had so much improved he 

could eat solids. The man from Fairport 

with a broken leg had so far recovered that 

he had gone home. The man whose leg 

and arm were broken by the cars had so 

far recovered as to be able to go about on 

crutches. 

A Touching Scene. 

Last month in our " Hospital Pictures," 

we described a touching scene in the Cross 

Ward, where, on Christmas Day, a German 

boy had come with his brother and sister, 

bringing his baby sister in his arms, and 

Christmas gifts in a market basket, to show 

the sick mother what nice Christmas gifts 

they had received. The mother was suffering 

from internal cancer, and her little 

family of five children were cared for by 

the oldest of their number, a boy of thirteen 

years. The father, a German cabinetmaker, 

was absent through the day, earning 

money to support his children. The family 

frequently visited the Hospital, and their 

affection for one another, their kind attentions 

to the mother, and the manly spirit 

manifested by the oldest boy, who for a long 

while, daily brought his baby sister in his 

arms to the Hospital, that a burnt limb 

might be carefully dressed by a hospital 

nurse, greatly interested the matron, nurses, 

patients and visitors of the Hospital in the 

family. 

Medical aid, surgical skill and hospital 

nursing could soften the rugged pathway to 

the dark valley, but could not avert the 

approach of the dark robed visitant. Repeated 

hemorrhages, early in January, indicated 

that the end was not far off, and on 

the 14th the beloved mother fell asleep in 

Jesus. The day before her death the German 

clergyman had administered to her 

the Holy Communion. After this, the baby 

was brought to her mother, and as she held 

it in her arms, the mother and child both 

fell asleep. A recent hemorrhage gave a 

peculiar pallor to the mother, she looked 

like marble, and in strange contrast was the 

plump, rosy-cheeked baby sleeping in her 

arms 

On Sunday the husband spent the day 

with his wife, and at five o'clock Monday 

morning left her to join his little family. 

Not many hours had passed before it was 

evident the mother was sinking, and a mes-

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senger was despatched to summon the lovedones. 

Two of the children were called 

from school and returned with the messenger 

to the Hospital. They were soon followed 

by two other children and the father 

bringing the baby in his arms. They were 

too late. The gentle spirit had left its frail 

tenement, and a more heartrending scene 

than the group around the dead mother we 

hope never again to witness. 

Miss Hebbard and the nurse, as tenderly 

and gently as if she had been their own 

sister, prepared the pale sleeper for her burial. 

The .German clergyman from Allen 

street conducted the funeral rites in the 

Hospital chapel, which was filled by friends 

and neighbors of the family, and by Hospital 

inmates. A kind lady, who had become 

deeply interested in the family, had 

brought bouquets of colored flowers for 

each child, and before the casket was 

closed, the children gathered about the 

mother, each putting a bunch of bright 

flowers around her head, till it seemed enshrined 

in a sweet halo ; then the father, 

baby in arms, bent over for the last parting, 

and the children gave the last kiss. Those 

who were present say they never saw such 

grief ; the wails and moans of the father 

and children were heartrending ; and every 

one in the room was sobbing. The children 

had to be taken away, the coffin was closed, 

and the six mourners, the baby wrapped 

in its mother's shawl, in the arms of the 

father, followed the remains to Mt. Hope. 

The baby did not understand what was 

passing. She seemed to feel the mother 

was sleeping, but when, at Mt. Hope, she 

saw her placed in the ground, she commenced 

calling : Mamma ! Mamma ! and 

could not be pacified, and all night long 

she kept up the crying and the calling for 

Mamma, so that there was no sleep in the 

house. 

The father was so prostrated by his grief 

that for a week he could neither work nor 

eat, but kind friends are interested for him, 

and we trust the motherless children will 

be cared for. 

The noble boy who had so tenderly 

nursed his little sister is called by her, 

Mamma, and most truly does he deserve the-name. 

A kind-hearted German widow, who has 

six children of her own, prepared a nice 

Christmas dinner and welcomed the children 

of the sick mother, and the day of the 

funeral she also provided for them. 

Substantial Appreciation. 

The following is an extract from a 

letter recently sent to one of the physicians 

of the Rochester City Hospital. 

It is a substantial expression of appreciation 

of the care given by the institution 

to those who avail themselves of 

its advantages. 

" It is just about a year since I went 

to make my five weeks' visit at the hospital, 

and with the remembrance of that 

time, and the natural feeling of thankfulness 

that that trial belongs to the 

past instead of the present, comes a desire 

to do a little something for the institution 

that proved so good a friend 

to me in time of need. I enclose, therefore, 

a check for $100, which I shall be 

very glad if you will pay into the treas>ury, 

or wherever it is most needed." 

The following invitation has been sent to 

some of our young friends, who have been 

especially interested in the Children's Pavilion. 

We here repeat it, extending the 

invitation to all the children of the city : 

A Japanese Fancy Dress Reception will be 

held at the opening of the Children's Pavilion, 

Rochester City Hospital, on Thursday, February 

14th, 1886. from 3 to 10 p. m. Supper from 

5 to 8. Dancing at 8$ o'clock. 

You and your friends are cordially invited 

to be present—in Japanese costume if convenient. 

•*• 

" It is the first step that costs."— 

French proverb.



On entering the Female Surgical Ward 

we found little Sarah, the colored child 

from the Orphan Asylum, seated by the 

register, looking very comfortable in her 

rocking-chair, with her playthings about 

her. Every person who visits the ward becomes 

interested in this sweet, patient, 

sunny little child. She is now about three 

years old, has a curvature of tê spine that 

has made it necessary for her to wear a 

plaster of, Paris jacket, but she is improving, 

and of her own accord had just walked 

a few steps. Under hospital treatment she 

seems to be acquiring the use of her limbs. 

She always has a smile for everybody that 

speaks to her. On our last visit we found 

she had a new playmate, in a little girl, 

Theodosia Banta, who has lately been 

brought to the Hospital. This child is six 

years old. Some time ago she had a very 

large abscess, and since then she has been 

gradually becoming more and more deformed. 

She went to the Industrial School, 

and took a severe cold going to and from 

school, and the physician who saw her at 

the Industrial School thought she might be 

benefited by hospital treatment. So she has 

come to the Hospital, and we hope she will 

improve here. The nurse says she is a 

pleasant child, contented, good and happy 

all the day long. Rosa, the German 

girl, with abscesses near the knee, keeps 

busy with her needle; her abscesses discharge 

less than they did. A new patient 

was sitting near her, her finger, on which 

had been a felon, was wrapped up, and 

her arm in a sling, and she was receiving 

treatment for other diseases. 

Mirinie Bryant, who has trouble with her 

heart, is so well she goes out for a walk 

every pleasant day. 

Lawrence Fisher, the boy who came to 

the Hospital some time since with rheumatism 

in the knees, was so much improved 

that he could walk about quite well without 

a cane, but lately his eyes have troubled him, 

and now his right eye is so inflamed that he 

wears a bandage over it, and he feels so 

sick that he keeps his bed. Freddy Lyons 

and Tommy Heeney are about as usual. 

Max Kraus was lying on his cot, looking, 

very pale. He still wears his plaster of 

Paris jacket and head harness. Louis Maul 

is a new patient, he has been with us but a 

few weeks. He is thirteen years old, and 

when he came to the Hospital he was fearfully 

afflicted with St. Vitus's dance. It was 

the worst case we have ever heard of. He 

is now so much better that there was nothing 

unnatural in his movements to attract our 

attention as we stood by him. He said that 

the physicians thought his disease was 

caused by the dust of tobacco, which he inhaled 

while working in a tobacco factory. 

George Tanner, the boy who had a lacerated 

wound, the result of an injury in Hamilton 

& Mathews' elevator, had gone home 

greatly improved. 

More help from the little folks. The 

following notes indicate that our young 

friends are not forgetting us: 

FRIDAY, Jan. 8, 1886. 

Miss Hebbard: 

I send you a small donation from the Infant 

Department of Park Avenue Baptist 

Church. It is the contents of a birthday 

box which we opened on our festival last 

week. Truly yours, 

H. H. SATTERLEE. 

FORT LOWELL, \ 

Dec. 29th, 1885. ) 

Mrs. Mathews: 

DEAR MADAM—Please accept these "four 

bricks" for the Children's Pavilion, in 

memory of my little brother Jackie, who 

was born in Rochester. It is my Christmas 

money. Yours, resp't, 

[i2yr'sold.J W. SWIFT MARTIN. 

«I« 

Do not forget the opening of the Pavilion.




Four "bricks" from W. Swift Martin, 

Fort Lowell, Arizona, in memory of 

his little brother Jackie, who was born 

in Rochester 1 00 

Miss A. K. Green 38 

Infant Department of the Park avenue 

Baptist Church. .. 2 37 

M. E.Suriday School, at Lincoln; N. Y., 

by Mrs. B. L. Peacock 2 00 

Mrs. B. L. Peacock's family and friends, 

Lincoln, N. Y 1 00 

" Penny collection " from Miss A. J. Anderson's 

class in St. Luke's Church 

Sunday School 125 

" Earned Pennies" from the Infant Department 

of Plymouth Church Sunday 

School 2 87 

Miss Belle M. Smith, for one brick 25 

Libbie and Florence Messenger 6 

An unknown friend, through Herbert 

Siddons Mann 1 00 




Contributions 'to this fund are urgently solicited, 




the Hospital. 

Cots and Their Furniture. 

As some persons have intimated a desire to 

furnish cots for the New Children's Pavilion, 

a room will be set apart at the opening of the 

Pavilion, where any person desirous of obtaining 

the necessary articles can be supplied by 

ladies in charge, who will give any necessary 

information. A part of the furniture of a cot 

or the entire appointments can be procured 

from these ladies at the opening of the Pavilion 

at the following prices : 

Bedstead $ 6 40 

Springs 3 40 

Mattress of felt, such as is used in the 

Hospital 8 00 

Pillows of the same material, each 1 00 

Three pairs of sheets, ready made, $1.25 

per pair 3 75 

Three pairs of pillow-cases, at 35 cents a 

pair 7. 1 05 

Blankets, averaging a pair 2 75 

Two quilts at $1.00 each 2 00 

Curtains and rings for shielding the 

beds 1 25 

Total $29 60 

Rubber cloth will be needed, also strips of 

carpet or rugs, chairs and a bureau-washstand 

for every two beds. 

The following poem, accompanied by a dollar, 

is a response to Herbert Siddons Mann'sappeal 

for the Children's Pavilion Fund, published 

in our January REVIEW : 

To Herbert S. Mann, from a friend: 

Dear Herbert Mann, if all who can, 

Would aid the fund for which you plead, 

'Twould greatly help the children dear, 

Toward the Pavilion which they need. 

Your warm appeal has made me feel, 

A wish to help the children's band ; 

And so, four " bricks " are here enclosed, 

To reach you through the Treasurer's hancL 

Blest be the boy, who finds a joy, 

In seeking to make others blest. 

From Heaven above, divinely sent, 

A thousand blessings on him rest. 

A name * like yours, I trust assures, 

A manhood, generous, faithful, true : 

A heart to feel for others' needs ; 

A help to them—a joy to you. 

Such the brief message this may send 

From an unknown, but loving friend. 

* Mann. 

Herbert S. Mann's Reply. 

Thank you. I am only four years oldr 

but I know how to thank folks. I send 

you my love. 

HERBERT. 

We wish we could show our readers the 

original of the reply, printed in large letters, 

with pencil, by the little fellow himself.. 

The ehildren from two Sabbath School 

classes in the Central Church have sent us 

most useful gifts, and our library has received 

valuable additions. 

The sheets for the Pavilion cots should 

be two yards and five eights of a yard long 

when they are hemmed, and one yard and 

three-fourths wide. The pillow-cases whea 

hemmed should be one yard long and one 

and a quarter wide. 

The Euterpe Club very kindly accepts the 

invitation of the managers, to sing on the occasion 

of the opening of the Children's Pavil-


Artistic Decorations. 

One of Rochester's fair daughters is modestly 

wearing her laurels, and we are sure 

they are worthily earned. A few days 

since we were favored by a sight of some 

china, decorated by her, that was designed 

as a wedding gift to one who ere long will be 

welcomed as a bride in her Rochester home. 

Deft fingers and refined taste had delicately 

fashioned a set of plates, freighted with 

pleasant memories of seaside life, where 

Other music than that of the murmuring 

billow had fallen on the listening ear. 

These plates represent views near Nantucket's 

wave washed shores. There are 

the home cottage, the old street, the village 

church, the windmill, the cottage hearth 

with its cheerful blaze, the stranded wreck, 

and the sandy beach with its clam-bake 

fire. The set makes a beautiful wedding 

gift that will pleasantly recall bygone 

days. 

Another of Rochester's daughters, whose 

blessed mother was long the honored Recorder 

of the City Hospital, is achieving 

success in a western city, receiving orders 

for artistic work, that shows how rapidly 

the youthful taste for brush and pencil has 

developed. The compensation offered indicates 

the quality of the work and also 

how well it is appreciated. 

Success to alL home talent. 

Notice- 

Our books show the names of two hundred 

and sixty-five subscribers, whose subscriptions 

are due at this date. We shall 

be very grateful to have the money forwarded 

to the Treasurer of the REVIEW, 

Mrs. Robert Mathews, 96 Spring street. 

One or two cent stamps can be sent when 

not convenient to send the money. 

Copies of the HOSPITAL REVIEW may 

be had of Mrs. Robert Mathews 96 Spring 

Street. 

Contents of Mite Boxes. 

No. Amt No. 

875, N.Y. city...$19 12696. 

842.... 2 67 874. 

733.... .'. 81 700. 

828 ; 1 50 683. 

847 2 12820. 

885 13 48 806. 

810 4 18 833. 

659 19 49 860.. 

882. 

1 83 797. 

266. 

1 05 80). 

697. 

61 811. 

883. 

64 906. 

8i7. 

3i 105. 

884. 

1 17 787. 

656. 

2 59 889. 

638. 

2 54 

689. 

16 896. 

805. 

1 01 905. 

848. 

64 774 

735. 

05 786. 

702". 

3 37 778. 

740. 

1 52 863. 

363. 

60 726. 

853. 

2 17 881. 

704. 

91 849. 

804. 

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844. 

30 834. 

857. 

37 867. 

856. 

43 783. 

836. 

1 09 892. 

840. 

44 859 

790. 

50 866. 

880. 

75 178 

879. 

1 09 842. 

415. 

1 50 893. 

799. 

95 858. 

839. 

3 41 

837. 

1 00 809. 

845. 

1 68 887. 

Amt. 

2 05 

2 01 

1 72 

9 24 

4 25 

50 

2 88 

73 

66 

33 

84 

52 

2 35 

I 00 

11 

10 

45 

30 

1 13 

24 

37 

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47 

2 65 

1 60 

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1 20 

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2 34 

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3 10 

ADDITIONAL CASH DONATIONS. 

Miss Elizabeth Elwood $100 00 

B. R. McGuire 10 00 

W. S. Lee. London, Eng...... 8 00 

$118 00 

RECAPITULATION. 

Cash donations $6,595 01 

Lunch tables 1,728 46 

Fancy articles, dolls' bazaar and 

flower table 1,255 28 

Esmeralda 407 50 

Total ..$9,986 25 

Donation expenses 343 52 

DONATED BILLS. 

Schmidt & Kaelber 

$9,642 73 

* 60 

MRS. W. H. PERKINS, Treasurer. 

We publish this month some articles that 

were crowded out of last month's paper by 

our long lists of donations on Donation 

Day.


115 

Menu. 

The following menu used at the First 

Baptist table, appropriately decorated with 

hand painted designs, was prepared by 

Miss Kate W. Smith. Our copy of it,without 

the witty illustrations, does not do justice 

to the original : 

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 

HOSPITAL DONATION, DEC. II, 1885. 

" Sit down and feed and welcome to our 

table."—As You Like It. 

MENU. 

" And once more I shower a hearty welcome 

on ye. Welcome all."—Henry VIII. 

Raw oysters, oyster soup, celery. 

" Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell ? 

No, nor I neither."—King Lear. 

Roast turkey, roast duck, roast pig. 

" Weke ! Weke ! cries the pig prepared for 

the spit."—Titus Andronicus. 

Sweet potatoes, Saratoga potatoes, squash, 

turnip. 

" Let the sky rain potatoes ; let it thunder to 

the tune of Green Sleeves.—Merry Wives. 

.Chicken pie, escalloped oysters 

" I drink and eat, array myself and live."— 

Measure for Measure. 

Chicken salad, olives. 

" A dish that I do love to feed upon."— 

Taming of the Shrew. 

Plum pudding, mince pie, squash pie, pumpkin 

pie. 

"For goodness sake consider what you do, 

or you may hurt yourself."—Henry VIII. 

Charlotte Russe, wine jelly, assorted cakes. 

" Ah ! what a life were this—how sweet! 

how lovely."—Henry VI. 

Coffee, tea. 

" This drink comforfceth the brain and heart, 

and helpethdigestion."—Bacon. 

Fruit, nuts, raisins 

" Do you look for ale and cake here, you 

rude rascals T—Henry VIII. 

" Welcome ever smiles and farewell goes out 

sighing."—Troilus and Cressida. 

Dishes and Articles Left at Power's 

Hall. 

One large square tin. 

Fire tin pans. 

Fiwe tin pie plates. 

One white dish. 

One white fluted dish. 

One gilt band dish. 

One low glass dish. 

One blue plate. 

Eleven white dining plates. 

One white soup dish. 

One white vegetable dish. 

One olive fork. 

One white bowl. 

One Japan tray. 

One round tray. 

One saucer. 

One shawl pin. 

One bloodstone scarf pin. 

One gilt hat pin. 

One pair rubbers. 

Fourteen handkerchiefs. 

Six napkins. 

One black comb. 

One white apron. 

One red check towel. 

A square of blue velvet with chenille embroidery. 

Gloves, baskets, &c. 

These articles left at the hall are at the residence 

of the Treasurer, 96 Spring street. 

Donations. 

Mrs. Gardiner, old cotton. 

Mrs. M. Strong, reading matter. 

Miss Ellen Field, old cotton. 

A friend, dressing gown. 

Mr. I. Willis, reading matter. 

Miss A. K. Green, second-hand clothing and 

bed-quilt. 

Miss E. P. Maynard and others from Brockport, 

second-hand clothing and reading 

matter. 

A friend, quilt and second-hand clothing. 

Lincoln Sabbath School of Walworth, N. Y., 

14 bed-tidies and one quilt, cards, picturebooks, 

playthings for children, fruit and jelly, 

and old cotton and money. 

Late Mrs. Wiyiam Burke by Miss Sallie 

Hall, two dozen picture cards. 

Sunday School classes of W. B. Leavitt and 

Miss May Dunn. Central Church, 44 " Consolidated 

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At the Rochester City Hospital, January 14. 

1886, of senile decay, Col. C. R. Babbitt, aged 

65. 

At the City Hospital, January 18, 1886. of 

internal cancer, Henrietta Jischke, aged 33. 

A Dinner and a Kiss. 

Pittsburg Commercial. 

"I have brought your dinner, father," 

The blacksmith's daughter said, 

As she took from her arms a kettle, 

And lifted its shining lid. 

" There's not any pie or pudding, 

So I will give you this " ; 

And upon his toil-worn forehead 

She left a childish kiss. 

The blacksmith tore off his apron, 

And dined in happy mood, 

Wondering much at the savor 

Hid in his humble food ; 

While all about him were visions 

Full of prophetic bliss, 

But he never thought of the magic 

In his little daughter's kiss. 

While she with her kettle swinging, 

Merrily trudged away, 

Stoppedat the sight of a squirrel, 

Catching some wild bird's lay ; 

And I thought how many a shadow 

Of life and fate we would miss, 

If always our humble dinners 

Were seasoned with a kiss. 

A Curiosity. 

Each of the following verses contains all the 

letters of the alphabet save the vowel most 

used in the language, which does not once 

appear in any one of them. The verses were 

published some years since in an English 

paper: 

" A jovial swain should not complain 

Of any buxom fair, 

Who mocks his pain and thinks it gain 

To quiz his awkward air. 

" Quixotic boys who look for joys, 

Quixotic hazards run ; 

A lass annoys with trivial toys, 

Opposing man for fun. 

" A jovial swain may rack his brain, 

And tax his fancy's might; 

To quiz in vain, for 'tis most plain 

Tnat what I say is right." 


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I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME.' 

VOL. xxn. ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 15, 1886. No. 8 

Ash Wednesday. 

By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley—Written on 

the anniversary of the deaths of his mother 

and wife. 

O day of ashes ! twice for me 

Thy mournful title hast thou earned, 

For twice my life of life by thee 

Has been to dust and ashes turned. 

No need, dark day, that thou shouldst borrow 

The trappings of a formal sorrow ; 

In thee are cherished fresh and deep 

Long memories that cannot sleep. 

My mother—on that fatal day, 

O'er seas and deserts far apart, 

The guardian genius passed away 

That nursed my very mind and heart. 

The oracle that never failed, 

The faith serene that never quailed, 

The kindred soul that knew my thought 

Before its speech or form was wrought. 

My wife—when closed that fatal night; 

My being turned once more to stone, 

I watched her spirit take its flight, 

And found myself again alone. 

The sunshine of the heart was dead, 

The glory of the home was fled, 

The smile that made the dark world bright, 

The love that made all duty light. 

Now that those scenes of bliss are gone, 

Now that the long years roll away. 

The two Ash Wednesdays blend in one, 

One and yet almost festal day : 

The emblem of that union blest, 

Where lofty souls together rest, 

Star differing each from star in glory, 

Yet telling each its own high story. 

When this day bids us from within 

Look out on human strifes and storms ; 

The worst man's hopes, the best man's sins, 

The world's base arts, faith's hollow forma—



One answer comes in accents dear, 

Yet as the piercing sunbeam clear, 

The secret of the better life 

Bead by my mother and my wife. 

•*» 

A Mid-Winter's Voyage. 

The following extracts are from a 

private letter received in this city, February 

27th, 1886. 

We left Liverpool at 9:30 A. M. Wednesday, 

January 20th, in the Cephalonia. It 

was very cold. There were only eight 

cabin passengers. Our first day's run was 

splendid, 336 miles ; the second was nearly 

as good, 314. Friday evening we were all 

in the gentlemen's smoking room, for it 

was the most comfortable place on the ship. 

We had gathered in this room to see the 

purser magnetize a cane. He rubbed his 

hands over it a few times and then it stood 

up by itself ; then he took his cap and let it 

hang on the top. After witnessing his feats 

I was almost afraid to be near him, lest he 

should bewitch me. After the exhibitions 

with the cane were over, the captain told us 

stories about frightful storms at sea, and 

then what a very safe ship the Cephalonia 

was. He said we were going on well and 

should be in Boston the next Friday. I 

did not sleep very well that night, and 

awoke about four in the morn, and did not 

go to sleep again. At five everything was 

quiet, and we were making good time, when 

I heard the most frightful noise I have ever 

heard. It sounded as if bricks and pieces 

of iron were being ground up in the machinery, 

and then it felt as if the ship were 

shaken by a giant. This appeared to last 

about five minutes, but I do not suppose it 

was so long, then all was still. A little 

while after the engines started again, but, 

as the same noise was repeated, they were 

stopped at once. I was not frightened ; I 

had perfect confidence in the captain, and 

knew he would notify me if there was 

anything for us to do, so I did not leave 

my berth till it was time to dress for breakfast. 

Miss G., one of our passengers, was 

so very sea-sick most of the time, and found 

it so hard to dress and undress, that she 

had gone to bed dressed, and as soon as 

the noise stopped she came out of her 

room and said, "What has happened ? Are 

we sinking ? Is the ship filling with water ?" 

Mr. T., our artist passenger, said in a most 

comforting way, " I don't think we are, but 

I will go and see." All the others went on 

deck, but it was perfectly dark, and they 

could not see a thing nor find out anything. 

At breakfast I asked the captain 

what had happened, and he told me we had 

broken our shaft and lost our propeller. 

Then I asked what we were going to do, 

and he quietly said, " Return to Queenstown." 

At about twelve, we signalled the Egypt, 

bound for New York. She came very near 

us ; we lowered a lifeboat. It was a most 

exciting scene, for, though the sea was 

quiet, the little boat seemed as if it would 

be knocked to pieces before it could get 

away from the big ship. The men worked 

finely; they were under excellent discipline. 

It was dreadful to have the little 

boat go out of sight for five minutes together. 

After we had said to the Egypt atll we 

wished she sailed away, and as the wind was 

against us we could only drift and watch 

for a sail. We were perfectly safe; we 

had food that would have lasted us six 

months, and we were too far away from 

land to be in danger of being dashed against 

rocks, and no storm could have hurt us 

while drifting. 

Monday, at about 4 A.M., we saw a light 

and sent up a rocket. The Viola answered 

and came to our relief. She is a very little 

steamer, and told us she could only take us 

about four miles an hour in such a sea. 

All the morning we were making fast, and 

at about one o'clock we started. I for one 

was very thankful. All that week the little 

Viola did nobly, and on Saturday we 

reached Queenstown, just when we were 

expected in Boston. 

We all slept quietly at anchor, and Sunday 

morning while the Auraniawas waiting 

for the mails, we and all our luggage were 

transferred to that ship, bound for New 

York. 

We made our second start Sunday, at 

about two o'clock. From the moment we 

started the sea began to rise, and we had a 

really frightful time. Had I been seasick 

you would very naturally have thought I 

was prejudiced ; but I was perfectly well, 

and as hungry as possible all the time. The 

ship was driven at the most frightful head 

seas. We did nothing but ship seas. The 

noise was simply deafening, and the ship 

was, strained at every joint, so that everything 

was soaked. In my room everything


was drenched. At one time I thought we 

were going to the bottom. One very heavy 

sea struck the ship, and, before she could 

recover, a second, and we went lower ; for 

a few seconds the sensation was dreadful. 

I shall always feel we would have been lost 

had we forced the ship, but we stopped the 

engines, and in this way escaped the third 

wave. The captain said it was the worst 

passage he had had since he had been on 

the Aurania, about two years. We lost a 

sail and broke our pumps, and stopped in 

mid-ocean to repair, so that we could continue 

our journey. We were between two 

and three days overdue. c. s. B. 

Millais' Huguenot. 

The Huguenot celebrations held a few 

months since, at home and abroad, have 

revived and deepened the interest felt in 

the Huguenots, and everything associated 

with them has now a peculiar attraction. 

A London contributor to a New York 

paper, over the signature A. de G. S., in a 

recent article, gives an interesting description 

of a collection of paintings exhibited 

this winter in Grosvenor Gallery, under the 

direction of Sir Coutts Lindsay, where 

were displayed one hundred and fifty-nine 

completed works and sketches by Millais, 

illustrating "the three distinct epochs and 

manner that mark the genius of Millais as 

the boy, the young man and the veteran." 

Before alluding to the works of the artist, 

the author gives a sketch of the man whom 

be speaks of as " the most renowned of 

living English painters, and the only English 

artist who has been made a Baronet on 

the strength and merit of his art." 

When but nine years old Millais received 

from the Society of Arts a silver medal for 

his drawing from the antique, and in 1840, 

when but eleven years of age, he was admitted 

as a student at the Royal Academy, 

"the youngest aspirant to fame that ever 

found entrance there." 

After describing other works of Millais, 

the writer gives the following interesting 

notice of "The Huguenot." 


But no picture in the entire collection attracts 

so much attention and admiration as 

the well known but rarely seen " Huguenot." 

It may be said of it to-day, as it was said of it 

in 1852, when exhibited at the Royal Academy 

that "crowds stood before it all daylong, men 

lingered there for hours, and went away but 

to return." Millais was but three-and-twenty 

when he painted it, and it raised him to the 

height of his reputation, remaining to this day 

his masterpiece. The motif is given in the following 

order issued by the Duke of Guise, 

Aug. 24, 1572. " When the clock of the Palais 

de Justice shall sound upon the great bell at 

daybreak, then each good Catholic must bind 

a strip of white linen round his arm, and 

place a fair white cross in his cap." So 

familiar are we with the engraving that any 

description is in this instance superfluous. The 

girl leans again-t her Protestant lover in the 

abandonment of despair ; in vain she strives 

to tie the white favor of freedom about his 

arm ; he stays her not so much with his hand 

as with the look of courage and denial written 

on his face. He holds her tenderly to his 

breast— she is the sweetheart of his life—but he 

owns a higher allegiance than to her, holds a 

fealty above earthly greatness, and so denies 

her pleading and goes from her. The man's 

face is wonderful in its intense love, yet firm 

decision. The girl's fair beauty is worn and 

pale with the struggle, the features grow contracted 

and despairing as you gaze, until with 

her you feel all is useless—he will never yield. 

The technique displayed throughout is beyond 

criticism, the deep purple velvet of the man's 

coat, the figured black damask robe of the 

girl, the lace about her throat, the pale yellow 

puffings in the sleeves, the old red brick wall 

against which they stand, covered with lichens 

and spun across by hoary spiders, the leaves 

hanging motionless above them, the orange 

flowers of the wild nasturtium, the scarlet 

petal that has dropped upon the man's sleeve, 

all are rendered with undeviating fidelity, and 

all contribute to and define the sentiment that 

runs • throughout tte composition. It was 30 

years since Millais had looked upon the masterpiece 

of his youth, and it was with a sigh 

of satisfaction that he turned from it : there 

was nothing he desired to add, nothing he 

wished to take away. The models whc sat for 

him were his old friend Mr. Arthur, now 

General, Lempiere, as the Huguenot, and Miss 

Euphemia Gay, now Lady, Millais, for the girl. 

The picture was originally painted for Mr. 

David White, a dealer, for the insignificant 

sum of £150, which was paid in installments, 

and to which was added another £50, as so 

much had been realized from the engraving. 

It became the.property of Mr. Miller, of Preston, 

who in hrewill desired it should never be 

removed from his Preston house until the 

death of his wife, when it passes to the picture 

gallery of that town. Mrs. Miller, however, 

with the consent of his trustees, has allowed 

il to pass into Sir Coutts Lindsay's care during 

the exhibition. 

In connection with the above we republish 

the following poem :



Millais' Huguenot* 

(To H—, playing Mendelssohn's "IAed ohne Worte," 

No. 18.1 

Your favorite picture rises up before me, 

When'er you play that tune. 

I see two figures standing in a garden, 

In the still August noon. 

One is a girl's, with pleading face turned upwards, 

Wild with a great alarm ; 

Trembling with haste she binds her broidered 

kerchief 

About the other's arm, 

Whose gaze is bent on her in tender pity, 

Whose eyes look into hers 

With a deep meaning, though she cannot read 

it, 

Hers are so dim with tears. 

What are they saying in the sunny garden, 

With summer flowers ablow ? 

What gives the woman's voice its passionate 

pleading ? 

What makes the man's so low? 

"See, love !" she murmurs ; you shall wear my 

kerchief, 

It is the badge, I know ; 

And it will bear you safely through the conflict, 

If—if, indeed you go! 

You will not wear it ? Will not wear my kerchief 

? 

Nay ! Do not tell me why. 

I will not listen ! If you go without it, 

You will go hence to die. 

Hush! Do not answer ! It is death, I tell you 1 

Indeed I speak the truth. 

You, standing there, so warm with life and 

vigor, 

So bright with health and youth. 

You would go hence out of the glowing sunshine, 

Out of the garden's bloom, 

Out of the living, thinking, feeling present, 

Into the unknown gloom!" 

Then he makeB answer ; " Hush t oh, hush, 

my darling! 

Life is so sweet to me, 

So full of hope, you need not bid me guard it, 

If such a thing might be ! 

If'such a thing might be 1—but not through 

falsehood— 

I could not come to you, 

I dare not stand here, in youT pure sweet 

presence, 

Knowing myself untrue." 

"It is no sin !" The wild voice interrupts him, 

" This is no open strife. 

Have you not often dreamt a nobler warfare, 

In which to spend your life ? 

Oh, for my sake—though but for my sake, 

wear it! 

Think what my life would be, 

If you, who give it first true worth and meaning, 

Were taken now from me. 

Think of the long, long days, so slowly passing! 

Think of the endless years ! 

I am so young ! Must I live out my lifetime, 

With neither hopes nor fears?" 

He speaks .again, in mournful tones and 

tender, 

But with unswerving faith— 

"Should not love make us braver, aye and 

stronger, 

Either for life or death ? 

And life is hardest! Oh, my love I My treasure! 

If I could bear your part 

Of this great sorrow, I would go to meet it 

With an unshrinking heart. 

Child! Child! I little dreamt in that bright 

summer, 

When first your love I sought, 

Of all the future store of woe and anguish. 

When I, unknowing wrought. 

But you'll forgive me? Yes, you will forgive 

me, 

I know when I am dead ! 

I would have loved you—but words have scant 

meaning; 

God loved you more instead!" 

Then there is silence in the sunny garden, 

Until, with faltering tone, 

She sobs, the while still clinging closer to him, 

" Forgive me!—go—My own." 

So human love and faith, by death unshaken, 

Mingle their glorious psalm, 

Albeit low until the passionate pleading 

Is hushed in deepest calm. 

Birth of a Poem. 

From the Literary Life. 

Doubtless many of our readers have read 

Gen. W. S. Lytle's fine poem, " Cleopatra," 

written the night before the battle in which 

he was killed. The Pittsbuig leader relates 

the romantic circumstances under which it 

was written. They were told by the late 

Col. Realf to a gentleman. 

He spoke of the night before the battle 

at which Gen. W. S. Lytle fell. The two, 

Realf and Lytle, lay together in the 

general's tent. 

They were both given to writing poetry 

at such times, and each had an unfinished 

poem on hand, and they read and criticised 

each other's efforts humorously for some 

time, when said Lytle :


" Realf, I shall never live to finish that 

poem." 

"Nonsense," said I, "you will live to 

write volumes of such stuff." 

A feeling has suddenly come over me," 

continued the general solemnly, "which is 

more startling than a prophecy, that I shall 

be killed in to-morrow's fight. As I spoke 

to you I saw the green hills of the Ohio as 

I stood among them. They began to recede 

from me in a weird way, and as they disappeared 

the conviction flashed through me 

like the lightning's shock that I should 

never see them again." 

I rallied him for his superstition, but the 

belief had become strangely impressed upon 

his mind, and he succeeded in so. far thrilling 

me with his own unnatural fear that I 

begged him to finish his poem before he 

slept, that such fine work might not be lost 

to the world. 

In the small hours the general awakened 

me from a slumber into which I had fallen, 

to read to me that beautiful poem, which 

must live as long as our literature survives, 

beginning 

I am dying, Egypt, dying, 

Ebbe the crimson life-tide fast. 

My eyes filled with tears as he read. He 

said not a word as he concluded, but placed 

the manuscript in his pocket and lay down 

to sleep. 

Before dawn came the call to arms. 

When I next saw poor Lytle he was cold 

in death among heaps of slain. I thought 

of the poem, and, searching the pocket 

where I had seen him put it, drew it forth 

and it was forwarded among other things 

to his friends. 

We give below the poem referred to in 

the above article. 

I am dying, Egypt, dying, 

Ebbs the crimson life-tide fast, 

And the dark Plutonian shadows 

Gather on the evening blast; 

Let thine arms, O Queen, enfold me, 

Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear, 

Listen to the great heart-secrets 

Thou, and thou alone, must hear. 

Should the base plebian rabble 

Dare assail my name at Rome, 

Where my noble spouse Octavia 

"Weeps within her widow'd home, 

Seek her ; say the gods bear witness- 

Altars, augurs, circling wings— 

That her blood, with mine commingled, 

Yet shall mount the throne of kings. 


As for thee, star-eyed Egyptian ! 

Glorious sorceress of the Nile I 

Light the path to Stygian horrors 

With the splendors of thy smile, 

I can scorn the Senate's triumphs, 

Triumphing in love like thine. 

Ah! no more amid the battle 

Shall my heart exulting swell: 

Isis and Osiris guard thee ! 

Cleopatra—Rome—farewell ! 

THE HOSPITAL RETIEW 

ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 15, 1886. 

THE HEW CHILDREN'S PAVILION, 

THE 

According to previous announcement, 

the new Children's Pavilion was thrown 

open for a grand housewarming on Thursday 

afternoon, February nth, and if the 

number of little folks and their" parents 

who responded to the call is a test of the 

interest felt in this department of the Hospital, 

the sick poor children of Rochester 

will long hold a place in the hearts of this 

community. As we took the West avenue 

car for the Hospital, we counted thirteen 

children within it, and the car, crowded to 

its utmost capacity, was a type of the Pavilion, 

every nook and corner of which 

seemed completely filled, from early afternoon 

till long past the hour when the little 

folks are ordinarily sleeping soundly in 

their own homes. The managers had made, 

as they supposed, ample arrangements for 

welcoming their guests, exhibiting the Pavilion, 

and entertaining the children ; but 

the unprecedented crowd that favored them 

with their presence prevented those in 

charge from ministering as they would have 

done to the comfort of their guests, and 

the managers regret they were so poorly 

able to supply the needs of their friends, 

and provide more ample apartments for 

those who were present at the opening of 

the Pavilion. 

It was decidedly a Japanese day at the



Pavilion. We were greatly indebted to 

Carroll & Southard for the use and 

arrangement of his tapestries, screens, 

fans, parasols and Japanese wares, that, 

mingled with evergreens, converted the 

wards of the Pavilion into bowers 

of beauty, and made appropriate surroundings 

for the little ones, who, in 

Oriental costumes, presided at the table and 

took part in the Mikado dances and marches 

and also in the solos, duetts and choruses 

from the Japanese opera. 

The following ladies were in charge : 

Arrangement Committee—Miss A. S. Mumford, 

Miss A. E. Wild, Miss L. E. Whitney, 

Mrs. A. S. Hamilton, Mrs. Robert Mathews, 

Mrs. C. H. Angel. 

Refreshments—Mrs. John H. Brewster, Mrs. 

H. H. Morse. 

Fancy articles—Miss L. E. Whitney, Mrs. 

Mrs. John Ely. 

Japanese and paper articles — Miss A. E. 

Wild, Mrs. H. Anstice. 

Baskets—Mrs. L. S. Ettenheimer. 

Domestic articles—Mrs. C. H. Angel. 

Flowers—Mrs. Josiah Anstice. 

Tea tables—Mrs. George H. Perkins, Mrs. 

William H. Ward. 

The fancy, flower, tea and refreshment 

tables were on the first floor of the Pavilion. 

The Mikado exercises and the singing by 

the Euterpe club were in the second story, 

and all who could get near enough to enjoy 

these exercises expressed much pleasure at 

the musical and operatic entertainments, 

but lack of space limited the number of 

those who could participate in these pleasures. 

Mrs. Frank Bottum accompanied 

the children on the friano, and the following 

little folks took part in the Mikado 

opera: 

Misses Tilly Lowenthal, Connie Wilder, 

Mamie Harris, Bessie Fitch, Mary Dodds, Lois 

Whittlesey, Matie Dayfoot, Carrie Wolcott, 

Henrietta Hamilton, Katie Roby, Marion Reid, 

Margery Bronson, Eloise Bush, Helen Osgood, 

Mamie Peck, Madge Backus, Cecile Macy, 

Fannie Rawlings, Louise Kelly, Helen Williams, 

Gertrude Perkins, Sophie Wile, Mamie 

Liitle, Carrie Rice, Stella Levi, Stella Dinkelspiel, 

Stella Garson, Fannie Whittlesey, Carrie 

Little, Augusta Whitney, Laura Williams, 

Mabel Waters, Emily Harris, Victoria Raymond, 

Julia Robinson, Emma Wilder, Grace 

Hay wood; Masters Russell Yates, Buell Mills, 

Fred Barry, Tim Little, Joe Johnson, Frank 

Bemis, Harry Walker, Ned Sage, Joe Hone, 

Phil Mumford, Alfred Osgood, Wiljy Barry, 

Beekman Little, George Huntington, Lawrence 

Fitch, Emile Landsberg, Charlie Robinson and 

Samuel Adams. 

Mrs. Robert Mathews had an ingenious 

chart indicating how much was needed to 

complete the last payment of $5000 now 

due on the Children's Pavilion. This chart 

is divided into 5000 squares ; each square 

represents a dollar ; ten squares represent 

$10, and one hundred squares, $100. As 

fast as the dollars are contributed the 

squares are crossed off. 

The cash donations received on the opening 

of the Pavilion, the entrance fees and 

receipts from the supper, amounting in all 

to $478.70, were applied to the building 

fund ; the receipts from the candy, flower 

and fancy tables were appropriated towards 

furnishing the Pavilion. 

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Cash Receipts at the Opening of the 

Children's Pavilion. 

February 11th, 1886. 

Receipts at the door $168 10 

From Supper 113 67 

Cash Donations 196 93 

Total $478 70 

This amount will be paid to the building 

fund. 

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Receipts from Tables. 

February 11th, 1886. 

MisB Wild's Japanese table $ 51 84 

Mrs. Ettenheimer's basket table 55 88 

Mrs. John Ely's fancy table 85 25 

Miss Whitney's china table 55 50 

Mrs. Angel's domestic table 25 00 

Mrs. Anstice's flower table 30 00 

Miss Mumford's candy table. . 70 00 

Mrs. Geo. Perkins' tea table 19 10 

Mrs. Chapin and Adams, furniture and 

bedding 28 65 

FOR FURNISHING A BED. 

Mrs. James Hart (Isabel Bed) 30 00 

Mrs. W. E. Hoy t 30 00 

Miss Henrietta Mumford 30 00 

Also to endow a bed for one veer 300 00 

Mrs. S. S. Gould, Seneca Falls 30 00 

Mrs. Freeman Clarke 80 00 

Mr. Edward Brewster 50 00 

Miss Hebbard. 48 00 

$ 919 22 

This amount will be used for the furnishing 

of the Children's Wards. 

MRS. WM. H. PERKINS, Treasurer.


The Children's]Pavilion. 

The main entrance to our new Children's 

Pavilion is very pleasing, and much taste 

has been shown in the selection of appropriate 

furniture for the front hall and reception 

room. The floor of these is covered 

with a nice linoleum, and a pretty Madras 

lace of old gold and ecru tints veils the 

front windows. A choice black walnut hat 

stand and black walnut sofa and chairs upholstered 

in brown leather, are the nicest 

and most substantial and appropriate things 

that could have been found for the place. 

Four beautiful clocks are noticeable on 

the walls of the Pavilion. Two pretty cabinets 

of cherry are designed for the Children's 

Wards. Quite a number of cots and 

cradles that have previously been given to 

the Hospital have been removed to the 

Pavilion, and some very handsome new ones 

have been added. A number of pictures 

have also been donated. Samples of iron 

bedsteads are found in the Wards, and furniture 

has been given for some of them. 

Some of the managers and other friends of 

the Hospital have signified their intention 

of furnishing cots or rooms, and next 

month we hope to report that enough is 

supplied to enable us to remove the little 

folks into their new Hospital. 

You will see, dear children, by the report 

of the Treasurer that we have now $4,- 

331.44 to raise to cancel the debt on the 

Pavilion and we must also furnish the building 

to some extent before the little folks 

can take possession of it. 

We know your hearts are with us, and 

we are sure you will all love to help us. We 

want to see all the empty squares in Mrs. 

Mathews' Pavilion chart crossed off, and 

the Pavilion comfortably furnished. Perhaps 

in some of our Sabbath schools offerings 

will be made to raise the needed funds. 

The following letters indicate what some 

of our young friends are doing for us. 

Little Mabel Frances Taylor, only two 

years and a half old, has collected $3.50 


ROCHESTER, Feb. 12th, 1886. 

Mrs. Mathews: 

DEAR MADAM,—Please to accept ten (10) representative 

bricks for the "Childrens' Pavilion," 

from my ten (10) " children," and won't 

you pray that they may all be represented in 

that "building," not made with hands. 

Yours in fellowship, 

7 PROSPECT ST., MRS. W. F. PARRY. 

ROCHESTER, Feb. 27,1886. 

Mrs. Mathews: 

Please accept for the Pavilion Fund the enclosed 

contribution, $8.75, the proceeds of an 

entertainment given by the C. C. C. (Children's 

Charity Club) at the residence of Mr. H. S. 

Hanford, 245 University ave., on the evening 

of the 26th inst. 

Members of the club : 

MAY GORDON, 

BESSIE WISNER, 

HATTIE ARNOLD, 

MAUD GILES, 

BESSIE DICKINSON, 

ANNA BARNARD, 

FREDDA CLARK, 

JOSEPHINE HANFORD. 

Contributions at the Opening of the 

Pavilion. 

As the friends of the Hospital had so recently 

provided refreshments at the Donation 

Festival, the lady managers supplied 

the supper tables and kept no record of 

donations to them. 

Tbe Domestic Table of Mrs. C. H. Angel, 

assisted by misses Julia Robinson, 

Edith Feck, Laura Williams, Helen Williams, 

Madge Backus,and Bessie Backus. 

Miss Emma B. Jennings, a very handsome 

pitcher, beautifully painted in Forget-me-nots; 

also, 1 doz. towels for Pavilion. 

From Mrs. A. S. Hamilton's table at Donation, 

dolls' shoes, dolls, wooden shoe, etc. 

Bessie Backus, aprons. 

Madge Backus, dusters, holders, towels. 

Helen Williams, dusters, holders, towels. 

Miss Grace B. Terry, 2 bags and dusters. 

Miss Edith Peck, bags and dusters. 

Mrs. H. L. Ward, clothes bag. 

E. B. Diamon, quantity of bubble-blowers 

or smoke baloons. 

May French, 2 holders. 

Julia Robinson, 5 baby bibs. 

Mrs. Evans, 4 aprons. 

Mrs. Robert Mathews, nail-boxes. 

Ray Hill White and Margie White, $1. 

Mrs. L. F. Ward, 2 aprons. 

Mrs. C. H. Angel, articles for domestic table. 

Through Laurance Angel, fifty bricks for 

Cecilia M. Kimball and fifty for Ernest Kimball.



The Basket Table of Mrs. S. L. Ettenheimer, 

assisted by Misses Julia Wald, Stella 

Lcvl, Stella Garson, Tlllle Lowenthal, 

Carrie Rice, Sophia Wile and Stella 

Dinkelsplel. 

Burke, FitzSimons, Hone & Co., Kirley, 

Bullock & Scofield, J. Fahy & Co., Bush & 

Bull and Joseph Shatz, ribbons. 

Huyler's, Oaks & Stern, West & Moses, Max 

Lowenthal, Mathews & Servis, Mrs. Wald, 

Salter Brothers and Francis L. Hughes, baskets. 

George C. Barnard, Woodbury, Morse & Co., 

J. G. Luitweiler, bronzes, &c. 

Receipts from sales $55.88 

The Fancy Table of Miss TL. E. Whitney. 

Mrs. Roscoe Ashley, mat. 

Mrs. Wm. Hoyt, fancy articles. 

Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins, hood. 

Mrs. A. D. Fiske, New York, socks. 

Miss Lois E. Whitney, china. 

Emily Harris, doll. 

Augusia Whitney, Maggie Ashley, Louise 

Kelly, Ada Dewey and Miss Mumford, fancy 

articles, &c. 

Victoria Raymond, cash $4. 

Through Augusta Whitney,cash$20 00 

Sales at table .$31.00 

Cash from Augusta and Victoria.. 24.00 

$55.00 

The Sales-room for Cot Furniture of Mrs. 

Myron Adams and Mrs. L. S. Chapln. 

Hugh Satterlee, pair pilo w cases. 

Miss Emily Hunter, white spread. 

Mrs. Hathaway, white spread. 

Mrs. Carter Wilder, pillow, pair sheets, 

pair pillow cases, 'white spread, pair blankets. 

Miss Janet Hunting ton, pair blankets. 

Elizabeth Huntington, pair sheets. 

George Huntington, white spread. 

Louise Kelly, pair sheets, pair pillow cases. 

Mrs. Sloan and children, Marion Jones and 

Frank Jones, bed sheets, blankets, pillows, 

pillow cases, white spread. 

The Boys' Tables. 

Pop-corn, Mrs. Charles E. Fitch, Mrs. David 

Little, Mrs. Myron Adams, Miss Jeannie Osgood, 

Miss Alice Peck, Mrs. Dr. Farley. 

Candy, Miss Walker and friends ; Miss Kate 

W. Smith, Mrs. E. Peck, Mrs. Alex. Thompson, 

Mrs. Arthur Robinson, Mrs. D. H. Griffith, 

Alfred Osgood. 

Scales, bags, &c, Mrs. A. S. Hamilton. 

Sundries, Miss Mumford. 

The Tea Table of Mrs. George H. Perkins 

and Miss Laura Selden. 

H. Wisner & Co., china and use of china 

Scrantom & Wetmore, Japanese napkins. 

The Flower Table of Mrs. Joeiah Anstlce, 

assisted by Misses Alice Montgomery, 

Gertrude Perkins, Ceclle Macy and Belle 

Backus. 

Miss Sarah Frost, Mrs. G. H. Perkins, Mrs. 

Wm. S. Kimball, Miss Henrietta Mumford, 

Mr. Levi Fulton and Mr. Keller, flowers. 

Miscellaneous Donations. 

Mr. Greenwood, four very handsome clocks,, 

book. 

Miss Julia Whitney, bedstead, spring mattress, 

picture. 

Mrs. Geor/e W. Smith, wash stand set. 

Miss Lois E. Whitney, sheets, pillow- asesblankets, 

spread, pictures. 

Sheets hemmed by Misses H. F. Griffith, 

Julia Griffith, Clarice Jeffrey, A. S. Mumford, 

Carrie Brewster, Julia Whitney, Lois E. Whitney, 

Mrs. George Perkins, Mrs. Max Landsberg, 

Mrs. Henry Smith and Mrs. Wm. H. 

Ward. 

Eight pairs of sheet, six pairs of pillow-cases, 

four pairs of blankets, and two counterpanes, 

contributed and made by Mrs. H. E. Hooker, 

Mrs. E. E. Howell, Miss Carpenter, Mrs. H. 

Smith, Mrs. H. Willis. Mrs. C. Wait, Mrs. 

Gould, Mrs. John Goss, Mrs. N. Castle, Mrs. 

Quinby, Mrs. J. I. Rroberts,MrB.Wm. Robinson, 

Mrs. F. N. Embrey, Mrs. W. P. Hawkins and 

Mrs. M. Adams. 

Mrs. F. Gorton, 5 pictures framed. 

Miss Mumford, 1 picture. 

Mrs. C. M. Lee, 8 pictures. 

Thanks. 

The managers would gratefully acknowledge 

their indebtedness to the Euterpe 

Club for their acceptable musical services 

at the opening of the Children's Pavilion ; 

to Carroll & Southard for the use of articles 

and for work in decorating the Pavilion ; 

to Bush & Hoyt for the use of chairs ; to 

Copeland & Durgis for the use of tables ; 

to Messrs. Henry Williams and William 

Bulger for receiving admission fees at the 

doors ; and to all who in any way contributed 

to the success of the opening. 

The Potter Legacy. 

The $5000 legacy from the late Henry 

S. Potter was received on the 25th of February 

last. This will be invested, and the 

interest used for the City Hospital.


Anniversary Exercises. 

The graduating exercises connected with 

the fourth annual commencement of the 

Training School for Nurses, at the Rochester 

City Hospital, will be held at the Chapel 

of the First Presbyterian Church, on Thursday 

evening, March 25th, 1885. 

The following young ladies having completed 

their two years' course of study are 

members of the graduating class : Miss N. 

A. Lewis, Onondaga Valley. Onondaga Co., 

N. Y.; Miss E. Hollister, Brockport, N.Y.; 

Miss L. M. Mitchell, Lima, N. Y.; Miss E. 

Da Belle, Churchville, N. Y.; Miss L. L. 

Jacokes, Albany, N. Y.; Miss E. A. Taylor, 

Woodstock, Ont.; Miss E. H. Casson, Addison, 

Steuben Co., N. Y.; Miss J. M. 

Corby, Honeoye Falls, N. Y., and Miss E. 

C. Sanford, North Bergen, N. Y. Further 

particulars will be given in the daily papers. 


On the fifth instant we visited the Hospital 

and found some changes had been 

made on the first floor of the main building. 

The small room east of the main hall, on 

the south side of the house, formerly used 

as a dispensary, has. been fitted up as an 

office for the Recorder, and the room east 

of it and connected with it is appropriated 

as a dispensary. This change gives the 

Recorder a more quiet place for her writing, 

and obviates the necessity of moving books 

and writing materials from the reception 

room for patients, as has heretofore been 

necessary, whenever the room was needed 

for a surgical operation. Now the large 

room on the south side of the building, 

west of the main hall, will be used as a reception 

room for patients, an operating 

room and a library, and the removal from 

it of the Recorder's desk and papers will 

make it more available for its other uses. 

We found fourteen under treatment in 

the Female Surgical Ward, four of whom 

were confined most of the time to their 


cots. The patient who had had diseased 

flesh removed from her limb was improving. 

The young woman who had a felon 

on her finger last month had recovered from 

that trouble, but was suffering from a weak 

stomach. She was sitting up in bed rnakirrg 

an apron for one of the little girls in the 

Hospital who was very scantily clothed. A 

middle-aged woman had fallen and broken 

her right hip, and the physicians were adjusting 

appliances for the support of her 

limb, to which weights were attached. The 

cancer patient was weak and suffering, but 

very patient and uncomplaining. A young 

woman with abscess in the side sits up most 

of the day. The one with broken wrist has 

recovered and gone home. The one who,, 

a long time since, fractured her hip, has 

had a shoe with a high sole made for her 

that facilitates her walking. "Grossmutter '* 

was up and dressed, without sling or bandage, 

and appeared to be doing remarkably 

well. 

In the Maternity Ward were three mothers, 

three babies and four waiting patients. 

No death had occurred the past month 

in the Female Medical Ward where there 

were eighteen patients. Five of these were 

confined to their beds. One of them had a 

diseased heart, another was suffering from 

cancer, a third from pleurisy, a fourth had 

an abscess on her side, and another wasseeking 

relief for some difficulty with the 

stomach by the application of a blister ; one 

woman was recovering from a surgical operation 

and another had consumption. 

There were seventeen inmates of the 

Male Medical Ward. One patient had died 

of consumption. Only two men were confined 

to their cots. The eczema patient 

was improving slowly, as was also a man 

with ulcers on his limbs. One man had 

his eye bandaged ; he was suffering from 

an abscess,but it pained him less than it had, 

done. A man with diseased heart had 

been quite sick, but was better, up and 

dressed. One man afflicted with rheuma-



tism and another with some abdominal 

trouble, were improving. One patient was 

very sick, had been delirious, but most of 

the others were convalescing. 

Nineteen were being cared for in the 

Male Surgical Ward. On the second of 

March, a man who fell on Front street, and 

fractured his skull, was brought to the Hospital 

by policemen, and died three-quarters 

of an hour afterward. Three patients kept 

their cots. One of them had a broken leg, 

another an abscess, and the third is the 

man with the burnt leg, and he is not any 

better than he was last month ; the sores do 

not heal rapidly. One man, wearing a 

sling, had broken his arm while coupling 

cars on the Genesee Valley Road. The 

colored paralytic has been very miserable, 

but is now somewhat more comfortable. 

One of the Pavilions was occupied by a 

diptheria patient, another by a man with 

gangrenous foot. 


Sarah, the little colored baby from the 

Orphan Asylum, interests everybody that 

visits the Hospital. When last we saw her 

she was taking a sponge bath, encased in 

her plaster of Paris jacket. She is a sweet, 

patient little child, and is improving under 

Hospital treatment, but we fear will always 

be feeble. A new patient has come to us 

from the Church Home, Clara Shaw, an 

orphan, eleven years old. She was sorely 

afflicted with St. Vitus's Dance when she 

came to the Hospital. Her spasms were so 

strong that boards had to be placed beside 

her cot, and some one was kept near her all 

day long lest she should throw herself off 

the bed. Now she rests quietly, the boards 

have been removed, and the twitching motions 

have almost disappeared. Theodosia 

Banta, who had a curvature of the spine and 

a bad cough, has nearly recovered from her 

cough, and effort? are to be made to lessen 

the curvature. She is a delicate child, but 

very sweet and gentle. She is six years old 

but very small for her age. Minnie Bryan* 

is looking remarkably well. Rosa was 

taking a bath, so we did not see her. Ida 

Rivers, who has had trouble with her eye, 

is better. Louis Maul, who had St. Vitus's 

Dance so badly, has recovered and gone 

home. Lorenz Fisher's knees and eyes are 

both better. Max Krauss goes about with 

his plaster of Paris jacket and his head 

harness,, but does not feel very well. 

Freddy Lyons was in his rocking-chair and 

Thomas Heeney was out at play. 

Appointments. 

With the completion of the Children's 

Pavilion, and the increase of work in every 

department of the institution, the following 

appointments to the hospital service have 

recently been made : Dr. M. L. Mallory, 

Assistant Visiting Physician, Drs. J. J. 

Kempe and H. T. Williams, Assistant Visiting 

Surgeons, Dr. W J. Herriman, Assistant 

Pathologist. 

Thanks. 

We are indebted to Dr. L. D. Walter, 

dentist, for valuable professional services. 

For several years Dr. Walter has kindly 

responded to all requests which have been 

made for his services for our patients, and 

has rendered the same cheerfully and gratuitously. 

As the season of the year is approaching 

when housekeepers make changes in their 

homes, we would suggest that two lounges 

are greatly needed at the Hospital. Bureaus, 

tables, chairs, rocking-chairs and match 

safes are also needed. Who will supply us ? 

Mr. Charles Backus, at the last Donation 

Festival, contributed to the table of Mrs- 

C. H. Angel two pretty water colors, both 

views of the lake ; they were very much admired, 

but by mistake were credited to Mr. 

Baker.




February, 1886. 

lire. W. L. Halsey, by Miss Mumford.. .$ 63 

Miss D. Cossett, by Miss Pixley 1 25 

Mr. C. Alverson, Moscow, 50 cents ; Mrs. 

N. Holbrook, Moscow, $1, by Mr. 

L. Dickinson. Geneseo 1 50 

Ailing & Cory, adv., $5 ; W. A. Grainger, 

adv., $5; Mechanics' Savings 

Bank., adv., $15; C. F. Paine & Co , 

adv.. $5; Mrs. E. Ray, Batavia, 50 

cents; Smith, Perkins & Co., adv., 

$5 ; J. Schleyer, adv., $5; James 

Vick, adv., $10 ; Woodbury, Morse 

& Co., adv., by Mrs. M. M. Mathews 55 50 

Mrs. Myron Adams, 62 cents; Mr W. B. 

Brown, Norfolk, Va., 50 cents ; Mrs. 

C. H. Babcock, (2 subs) $1.12 ; Mrs. 

J, C. Bertholf, 62 cents ; Mrs. E, T. 

Cory, 62 cents ; Miss Carpenter, 62 

cents; Miss M. Cochrane, 62 cents : 

Mrs. H. Dagge, Brighton, $1.00; 

Mrs. G. Ellwanger, 62 cents; Mrs. 

W. F. Evans, Niagara Falls, $1.00; 

Mrs. P. S. Frost, for Mrs. L.B. Cash, 

Little Falls, Minn.. 50 cents; Miss 

M. Howard, 62 cents; Miss Hathaway, 

Arkport, 50 cents; Mr. A. 

Hamilton, Livonia Station, $1.00; 

Hamilton & Mathews, adv., $5.00 ; 

Dr. J. E. Line, 62 cents: Hon. S. 

Miller, New Haven, Conn., 50 cents ; 

Miss H. Oothout, 65 cents ; Mrs. E. 

Prizer, 62 cents ; Mrs. A. H. Porter, 

Niagara Falls, 50 cents ; Mrs. A W. 

RUey, 62cents; Mrs. W. M. Rebasz, 

62 cents; Miss Spencer, Bergen 

Point, N. J., 50 cents ; Mrs. George 

Taylor, 6a cents ; Mrs. A. Teall, 62 

cents ; Miss E. M. Thomas, Cuba, 50 

cents ; Mrs. J. T. Talman, Geneva, 

50 cents; Mrs. M. Wells, Niagara 

Falls, 50 cents; Mrs. C. S. Whittemore, 

62 cents ; Mrs. F. S. Webster, 

Washington, D. C. 50 cents; Mrs. A. 

Zeeveld, 62 cents, by Treasurer 24 97 

MRS. ROBERT MATHEWS, 

Treasurer, 96 Spring street. 


Edna King Mandeville $ 

Lois Sibley Mandeville 

Mr. B. Herman 

Mr. D. Leary 

Mr. W. B. Brown. Norfolk, Va 

Cash 

Collected by Mabel Frances Taylor, 2£ 

years old 

25 

25 

1 00 

1 00 

50 

11 

3 50 

Fred Kalbfleisch Taylor 1 00 

"Proceeds of a juvenile phow," under the 

management of Grace Hyatt and Kate 

Wetmore 1 00 

"In loving memory of E. A. U. Entered 

into rest March 7, 1883" 5 00 

Mrs. H. H. Morse 1 00 

Mrs. J. H. Brewster 1 00 

Mr. John Mogridge 2 00 

Mr. J. P. Varnum 1 00 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews 1 00 

Mr. Samuel Wilder 5 00 

Mrs. D. Andrews 100 

Warren E. Woodworth, one brick 25 

Marie and Florence Woodworth, each 

one brick 50 

Sidney A. Pool. Charlie P. Rebasz, Mortimer 

T. Rebasz and E. Alice Rebasz, 

each one brick i 1 00 

In memory of Caroline Thompson 5 00 

Mrs. R. T. French 5 00 

Mrs. M. Strong 5 00 

Cushions, etc 30 

Amon and Marjorie Bronson 1 00 

Mrs. Henry Scranton 1 00 

Mrs. Alfred Ely 1 00 

Grace, Elliot and Mary Louise Lawrence 5 00 

Susan Pond 5 00 

Allen J. Cuming 100 

Bessie Bristol 1 00 

Alice Bueil 50 

Clara Bigelow, one brick: 25 

Clara Sewell Huntoon, one brick 25 

Gussie Whitney, two bricks 50 

Miss Reid, one brick 25 

Miss Jennie Reid, one brick 25 

Miss D. C. Stone, one brick 25 

Mrs. Hiram Sibley 5 00 

Louise and James J Averell 5 00 

Sadie Ward, Albany, one brick 25 

Grace E. Hathaway 100 

Walter Sill, two bricks 50 

Kate L. Rogers, one brick 25 

Alice M. Rogers, one brick 25 

Alice Little, one brick 25 

Frank Nott Brown, two bricks 50 

Miss Mason 25 

Miss Louise Follett 25 

Helen Osgood, five bricks 1 25 

Elizabeth Huntington, one brick 25 

May Carpenter, one brick 25 

Dottie Gilman, one brick 25 

Clara Churchill, one brick 25 

Marguerita Allen Ely, one brick 25 

Mary Talcott Ely, New York, one brick. 25 

Minnie Peck, one brick .... 25 

Wentworth Hoyt, one brick 25 

Mrs. W. E. Hoyt 1 00 

Mr. Renfrew, one brick 25 

Mrs. J. L. Evans 1 60 

Mr. J. H. Boucher : 2 00 

Florence Seymour 1 00 

Grace Coffin 1 00 

Mrs. Edward M. Smith 10 00 

Mr. Robert Mathews 100 

A Friend 1 00 

Emily, Carrie, Sallie and Franklin 

Brewster 4 Ol) 

" Postage, M. D" 2 00 

Burr Hoyt, one brick 25 

Miss C. L. Rochester 1 00 

Miss Alethe E. Craig, Medina 50 

Emma Tiffany 1 00 

Lizzie Tanner 1 00



Ruth Ward, one brick 25 

" Odd pennies " 11 

Supper tables at the opening of the Pavilion 

114 42 

Receipts at the doors at the opening... .168 10 

Eugene E Strouss, four bricks 1 00 

" Ten representative bricks from the ten 

children of Mrs. W. F. Parry" 2 50 

Marion Gould 5 00 

Mollie Knapp 2 00 

" Baby" Woodbury 2 00 

Infant department of the 1st Baptist 

Sunday school 5 66 

Bessie and Lawrence Fitch ... 2 00 

Two bricks from Mrs. Edward Ray, Batavia, 

in memory of her little granddaughter, 

MattieP. Ray 50 

Mrs. A. D. Smith 25 00 

Cecillia Mitchell Kimball, fifty bricks... 12 50 

Ernest Kimball, fifty bricks 12 50 

Mrs. J. T. Talman, Geneva 50 

" Memorial gift from a friend," Geneva. 2 00 

Mrs. P. Barry 10 00 

Dr. W. S, Ely 10 00 

Mary Louise Lawrence, one brick..... 25 

Proceeds of an entertainment given by 

the members of the Children's Charity 

Club—May Gordon, Bessie Wisner, 

Hattie Arnold, Maud Giles, Bessie 

Dickinson, Anna Barnard, Fredda 

Clark and Josephine Hanford 8 *75 




We still require $4,331.41 to complete the 

last payment on the ChildrenB' Pavilion, and 

free the building from the blemish of a debt. 

Contributions are urgently solicited to make 

up this amount, and should be sent to Mrs. 

Robert Mathews, 96 Spring street, the treasurer 

of the fund. 

Vick's Monthly. 

While the newspapers are reporting blizzards, 

and the mercury is ranging near the 

zero point, Vick's Monthly refreshes us 

with its brightly tinted Ramanas roses and 

its free blooming Clematis Virginiana. They 

carry us back to blue skies and summer 

rambles. We feel as -if the time would 

surely come when the winter would be over 

and gone, and now is the season to look 

over the catalogues and make our selections 

of seeds and plants for summer use. Vick's 

Magazines have always practical hints that 

are instructive to the regular gardener 

as well as to the amateur. 

Donations. 

Mrs. Frederick P. Allen and Mrs. William 

Webb, two very handsome cherry cabinets for 

the Children's Ward in the Pavilion. 

Mrs. C. E. Mathews, second-hand clothing for 

nursery. 

Mrs. Wm. Little, reading matter. 

Mrs. J. Shatz, reading matter. 

Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins, second-hand clothing. 

Mr. Joseph A. Johnson, a very nice black 

walnut crib, with springs, hair mattress, comforter, 

blanket, sheets and pillow cases. 

Mrs. S. Stern, quantity of second-hand 

clothing for children. 

Fritz Ward, games for children. 

Mrs. Thompson, reading matter. 

Mrs. L. Gordon, two pictures for the Pavilion. 

J. M. Fiske, pair of slippers, two nightshirts. 

Mrs. Cass Williams, old cotton. 

Mrs. William Corning, salad, barberries, apples 

and large box of flowers. 

Miss Henrietta Mumford, picture. 

Mrs. Roberts, scrap-book and infant's clothing. 

Mrs. E. W. Hoyt, screen for Pavilion. 

The sewing women of Epiphany Church, five 

bed tidies. 

Mrs. Tomsitt, two pictures for Pavilion. 

Mrs. S. M. Bentley, reading matter. 

Genesee Valley Club, ice-cream, 100 tarts, 

cake, Charlotte Russe, candy ornaments. 

Mrs. H. M. Jennings, two pairs of pillows for 

Pavilion. 

Mrs. Hoyt. table cover. 

Mrs. Wile, four sets of gentleman's underwear, 

six pairs of socks, six night shirts, dressing 

gown. 

Mrs. Stafford, three baby s slips. 

Dr. W. S. Ely, surgical table. 

Dr. David Little, 6 large rubber dilators. 

Dr. J. W. Whitbeck, a very nice hard wood 

floor for Male Surgical Ward. 

The following persons have recently been 

received as members of the Training 

School for Nurses : Miss M. M. Langferd, 

Vernon, Oneida Co., N. Y.; 

Miss D. C. Walters, Geneseo, N. Y.; Miss 

N. L. Marsh, Akron, N. Y., and Miss E. 

McElroy, Woodhull, Steuben Co., N. Y. 

Miss H. L. Newcomb, of this city, has 

been received as a probationer. 

Two scrap books, filled with pretty pictures, 

have been given to the Pavilion by a 

kindergarten school opposite the Hospital.


At the Rochester City Hospital, February 

24th, 1886, of shock from injury, John C. 

Carney, aged 41. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, February 

25th, 1886, Edward F. Pratt, of Milwaukee, of 

hemorrhage at base of brain. 

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VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 15, 1886. No. 9 

The Aspen. 

GOOD FRIDAY. 

An ancient legend reads that when Christ 

was led to the cross, every tree He passed was 

ordered to bow its head. All, with the exception 

of the aspen, obeyed the command- This 

irreverent, disobedient tree was judged and 

sentenced to tremble and bend at every footstep 

and every zephyr forever. 

Bend low thy heads, ye trees, 

For Christ is on His way 

To Calvary to-day. 

Bend low, the moment seize 

When He is passing by, 

Bend low and sigh ! 

Sigh soft and bend thy crest, 

The Master passeth by 

On Calvary to die. 

Ye oak, in beauty drest, 

Abase thy lofty crown, 

Ye oak—bend down. 

Ye graceful willow, weep! 

The Master passeth on, 

Aye, soon He will be gone ; 

Let thy fair tresses sweep 

The path which He will pass 

In verdant grass. 

Aspen, bend thy proud head, 

The Master comes to-day; 

Hasten to worship pay. 

Bend leaves to river's bed, 

Let every upper spray 

Lie low to-day. 

But aspen listened not; 

The Holy Christ passed by 

On Calvary to die. 

Proud aspen, all thy lot 

Is now to bend thy leaves 

To every breeze. 

Tremble, ye aspen, quake ! 

It was foretold that day 

That till the sun's last ray 

Should fade, thou'dst ever shake, 

Thy leaves should quivering shine 

Till life's decline.



THE HOSPITAL RETIEW- 

ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 15, 1886. 

Fourth Annual Commencement of 

the Training School for Nurses. 

Notwithstanding the numerous attractions 

elsewhere, on Thursday evening, 

March 25th, a large and appreciative audience 

assembled in the Chapel of the First 

Presbyterian Church, to witness the anniversary 

exercises connected with the graduation 

of the fourth class of Nurses from the 

Training School at the Rochester City 

Hospital. 

The presence of so many of our citizens 

and the attention manifested on the occasion 

indicate the interest felt in this branch 

of Hospital work. Only those who in hours 

of pain and weakness have received the 

grateful, tender ministries of a skillful nurse, 

or, when exhausted by long anxious vigils 

with loved ones, have welcomed the soothing, 

comforting presence of a trained nurse, 

can fully appreciate what is being done for 

the public in the Training School for 

Nurses, at our City Hospital. Could the 

Hospital wards speak they would be vocal 

with songs of thanksgiving for blessings 

that have flowed through this channel.. We 

shall never forget the gentle touch and patient 

motherly care of one of the Nurses, as 

for weary hours she watched beside a young 

child, whose life was saved by tracheotomy 

and the faithful nursing that followed the 

operation. A piece of an egg shell had 

lodged in the child's windpipe ; the skillful 

surgeon had removed it, but his services 

would have been of little avail had they not 

been seconded by constant watchfulness. 

Among those who were interested spectators 

at the anniversary exercises were some 

patients who had received the personal 

services of the pupils of the Training School, 

and some of the floral offerings to the graduates 

were tributes of grateful affection, for 

faithful care in hours of weakness. 

Twenty-eight Nurses, after a two years' 

course of practical study in our City Hospital 

and in private homes, have gone forth 

equipped for their useful, self denying profession. 

In the homes of the rich and the 

poor, the high and the low, they will 

pursue their calling, and who can estimate 

the value of such work ? 

At the anniversary exercises the rostrum 

was decorated by plants and flowers from 

White Brothers. Seated on the platform 

were Dr. Howard Osgood, D. D., Hon. C. 

R. Parsons, and Members of the Hospital 

Medical and Surgical Staffs. The Lady 

Managers and Trustees of the Hospital 

occupied the front seats in the body of the 

Chapel, and on the west side were the graduating 

class, numbering nine, sixteen under 

graduates in their pretty Normandy 

caps, and three probationers. 

John W. Whitbeck, M. D., presided; the 

opening prayer by Rev. Howard Osgood, 

D. D., was followed by Kjerulf's "Sweedish 

Song," by Mrs. J. H. Stedman, whose songs 

are always welcome. The following address 

was then made by our Mayor, Hon. C. R. 

Parsons: 

What can I say to the members of a graduating 

class of nurses that will be profitable 

or interesting to them, is a question which, 

for the past week, has been uppermost in 

my mind. It is certainly not because of 

any knowledge I possess of the art in which 

these young ladies have been so well instructed 

for the past two years, that the invitation 

was given to me to participate in the 

exercises of this evening. I must assume, 

therefore, that it is as the representative of 

the people of this city that I am here and 

that my remarks, brief as they must be, are 

to be addressed, not to the graduates alone, 

but to those who have gathered here on this 

occasion to manifest their interest in the 

great and good work which is being so successfully 

carried on. The Training School 

is but another reminder that the beautiful 

city of which we have so much right to boast,


is not backward in its deeds of love, or in 

its acts of humanity, whch are so well calculated 

to extend our reputation as a pro 

gressive and enlightened community. As a 

people, we have much for which to be thankful, 

and at no other season of the year can 

we more appropriately express that thankfulness 

or make humble acknowledgment 

for all the blessings we enjoy. Rochester is 

not alone a city of homes and of flowers; it 

is a city of manufactories—a city of teeming 

streets and of glittering spires; and I point 

with pride to-night to our flourishing schools 

and to our galleries of art, to our asylums 

for the fatherless, and to our institutions for 

the sick, the aged, and the unfortunate. 

How thankful we should be that there are 

women and men in our midst who give liberally 

of their time and of their means to 

the end that our charities may be successful 

charities, and that our city shall be noted 

and prospered for her good works. I sincerely 

believe that every community is as 

much dependent upon WOMAN and her benign 

influence for prosperity and success as 

it is upon the liberality and enterprise of its 

citizens generally ; and most appropriately 

has it been said that it is her 

"Nobler part 

To warm, to soften, to expand the heart, 

To polish manners, to exalt the mind, 

To brighten, beautify, and bless mankind." 

And what is true of the women of Rochester 

to-day, is also true of the women of 

other times and of other places. We have 

only to look back three decades for one of 

the grandest illustrations of what a resolute, 

educated and kind hearted woman can accomplish 

under the most adverse circumstances. 

I refer to the time when dark 

clouds of war settled over Europe ; when 

the invasion of the Crimea by the armies of 

England and of France was ordered by the 

governments of those countries, and when, 

because of the rigors of winter and the sufferings 

incident to war, and imperfect hospital 

regulations, the soldiers felt that the 

hour of gloom and adversity had come. It 


was then that Florence Nightingale, with 

her corps of trained and experienced nurses 

brought order out of chaos ; and by affording 

care and administering consolation the 

sufferings of all were alleviated and the lives 

of many were saved. That heroic woman 

earned the blessings of the sick and wounded 

as well as the gratitude of her country, 

and no eulogy can do justice to the talent, 

the energy and the devotion she displayed. 

And what was the result ? Down went the 

rate of mortality under her skillful care. In 

a single month it was reduced from 42 to 31 

per cent., in another fortnight it was down 

*o 14 per cent., then to 10, then to 5, and 4, 

and finally to 2. Is there not much in this 

example and in the history of this illustrious 

nurse to encourage the devoted educators 

and the students of our Training School for 

nurses ? My answer is yes, and I doubt 

not it strikes a responsive chord in the hearts 

of all present. Then what prompted the 

establishment of a training school of the 

character mentioned in Rochester ? The 

best interests of the sick demanded it, and 

the physician and untrained nurse alike saw 

the necessity of the step. What has been 

accomplished ? Up to this time 320 applications 

for membership have been received. 

These applications have come from various 

parts of our land, and this fact alone attests 

the popularity and the renown the school 

has already achieved, in the little more than 

five years of its existence. Its graduates 

now number twenty-eight, and the benefits 

it has conferred are so wide-spread and varied 

that they can never be accurately 

known. Deep, indeed, should be our measure 

of thanks to those who have made the 

Training School what it is. And now, members 

of the graduating class, a single word 

to you and my task is finished. 

As you go out into the toilsome sphere of 

your most praiseworthy profession you will 

take with you the credentials of your attainments, 

and the memory of the cheering compliment 

which this audience has bestowed



upon the event of your commencement- 

This crowd of witnesses testifies to the 

auspicious beginning of your career of usefulness, 

and I doubt not that they do it in 

full confidence of the success which awaits 

you if you persevere in the honorable, selfsacrificing 

and laborious service in which 

you have enlisted. That you may so persevere 

is the wish of all of us. Then will 

many a home be brighter, many a heart be 

lighter, because of your presence. Then 

will you do a work which will be a benefit 

to the age in which you live, and worthy 

yourselves and the noble institution from 

which you go to-night. 

The following poem by Tennyson was 

rendered in the deaf-mute language by 

Miss Willey, of the the Deaf-Mute Institute 

in our city, and interpreted by Professor 

Westervelt: 

Break, break, break, 

On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! 

And I would that my tongue could utter 

"Tie thoughts that arise in me. 

O, well for the fisherman's boy, 

That he shouts with his sister at play ! 

O, well for the sailor lad, 

That he sings in his boat onjthe bay I 

And the stately ships go on 

To their haven under the hill; 

But O, for the touch of a vanished hand 

And the sound of a voice that is still I 

Break, break, break, 

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! 

But the tender grace of a day that is dead, 

Will never come back to me. 

This was a novel feature in the entertainment, 

and the audience listened with almost 

breathless attention, as, with inimitable 

grace and power, Miss Willey illustrated the 

rolling, dashing and breaking of the waves ; 

the shouts and cry of the fisherman's boy ; 

the furling of the sail and the rowing of his 

boat by the sailor boy ; the majestic movement 

of "the stately ships," and again the 

breaking waves as they dashed against the 

rocky shore. It was the poetry of pantomime. 

The following essays and poem 

were read by members of the graduating 

class : 

PRACTICAL HINTS. 

What not to do in a sick room is one way 

of learning what to do in it. Do not allow 

unnecessary noises, such as rattling windows, 

creaking doors, and squeaking shoes, 

as these are peculiarly annoying to the sensitive 

nerves of the sick; and such may with 

a little care and forethought easily be remedied. 

All whispering should be avoided 

both in the room and outside the door, as 

whatever is not intended for the patient's 

ear should not be said in his presence. 

Doors should be opened and shut carefully, 

as sudden and sharp sounds are especially 

bad. The nurse should do all she possibly 

can to make the sick-room the brightest 

and pleasantest room in the house. Plants 

in the windows would be very cheery, and 

freshly cut flowers of a sweet odor, not too 

strong, would be pleasing, All medicines 

and articles of food should be taken from 

the room as soon as done with. The nurse 

herself should be dressed in some soft material 

that will not rustle. She should be 

quiet, quick without hurry, gentle without 

slowness. She should be mindful of that 

needful virtue cleanliness, and of order, 

which give an air of quiet and secure content. 

In addressing the patient the attention 

should first be fixed, then he shonld be 

spoken to distinctly but not loudly. The 

wants of the patient should be anticipated 

before they are expressed ; darkening 

rooms when necessary as in case of inflammation 

of the eyes, and at other times opening 

windows and blinds to allow the sun 

to come in and brighten both room and patient. 

As the patient becomes convalescent 

changes eould be made in the room, furniture 

and pictures rearranged, ornaments introduced. 

The patient's appetite should be 

tempted, by the nurse preparing, from time 

to time, delicacies in an inviting way. Fresh 

fruits, of all kinds, nicely arranged in a 

pretty dish will often tempt the appetite. 

All these little points should be thought of, 

for neglect of them will mar the comfort of


the sick one. Often times the patient will 

be depressed and discouraged ; the nurse 

should always be cheerful and hopeful, 

thinking of her patient and not of herself. 

She should be good, tender and kind, remembering 

that "A. merry heart doeth good 

like a medicine." ELLEN A. TAYLOR. 

THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. 

There is no success in life where there 

are no obstacles to overcome, and the value 

of all work depends greatly upon the difficulty 

and repeated attempts it requires to 

perform it successfully. Nor is the nurse's 

work free from these obstacles and discouragements. 

Whether it is chosen from 

a pecuniary point of view or from a moral 

and spiritual standpoint, the needs are the 

same, only in the latter case does the 

worker derive the most benefit. " So run 

that ye may obtain," is the apostolic injunction, 

and if we interpret it, " So order your 

life and methods of working that you will 

be successful," we will find that we can act 

upon it with great benefit. We can hand a 

cup of cold water to a thankless patient if 

he needs it, with a cheerful face and willing 

hand, knowing it is rigV«t to do so. We can 

check the inclination to utter a hasty word 

even in just vindication of ourselves, when 

some unjust complaint is made against us. 

In many ways does a nurse have to acquire 

self-control over her speech, her sympathy, 

her feelings, her prejudices; it is a trainingschool 

in more than one sense. Moral 

courage is another faculty that must needs 

be developed; for this the nurse needs 

ample fund—in fact, there is no time, place 

or surrounding in which she is not called 

to exercise it. Let those attest, who have 

found suddenly devolving upon them the 

unpleasant duty of denying a patient something 

anticipated, whose wish gratified, 

would prove productive of harm, or who 

have endeavored to induce or kindly compel 

one to submit to any treatment or accept 

any food or remedy against which his 

or her mind is set. This also calls forth 


tact and firmness, without which one can 

hardly be successful. Many an opportunity 

for observation presents itself to us, 

each new feature in the work conveying to 

us a hint of something deeper, more difficult 

or possibly a simpler and better method 

of execution. Then let us take courage, 

looking upward, doing our work conscientiously, 

faithfully, each little duty 

completed in itself, the great sum total will 

be a grand accomplishment. Then may we 

hear the bidding, " Come up higher ! " our 

life-work fully rounded and completed. 

E. C. SANFORD. 

OUR HOSPITAL AND ITS WORK. 

I come before you friends to-night, 

To say a word or. two 

Of life in grand old R. C. H., 

Also the work we do. 

And should the sprite who rules my pen, 

Bring more of rhyme than reason, 

I trust you'll judge with kindly hearts 

Nor deem my folly, treason. 

A nurse's life though full of care, 

Is not devoid of pleasure, 

For Satan finds no work for those 

Who haven't any leisure. 

Then 'tis a blessed thing to know 

That 'mid this world's great throng, 

We've lent a helping hand to those- 

Who must be helped along. 

We take our patients as they come, 

Of rich or poor relation, 

For when we're striving life to save, 

We never think of station. 

But all alike are here received 

To share our ministrations, 

Our Powders, Pills and Poultices, 

And skilled manipulations; 

And if we have a chance to add, 

Words which if fitly spoken, 

May help to cleanse some sin stained soul, 

Or cheer some heart near broken, 

We do it gladly, proud to know, 

Though humble our position, 

We yet may do the Master's work, 

And claim a noble mission. 

If any think our lives are sad, 

And the Hospital a prison, 

Let them but oftener visit us, 

They'll soon change that decision 

For in this noble R. C. H., 

A little world is moving, 

Which by its peace and unity 

Each day is plainly proving 

That Wisdom, Firmness. Love and Skill, 

Hold it within their keeping,


14:2 THE HOSPITAL REVIEW. 

And the best good of human kind, 

The end and aim they're seeking. 

And if there are among you some 

Who'd like our work to try, 

Only the cool and self possessed, 

None others need apply. J. M. CORBY. 

The audience were then favored by Miss 

Louise Ailing, who rendered in a pleasing 

and acceptable manner, Hiles 1 " Doubting 

Heart." Mr. E. Huntington accompanied 

her, as he did also Mrs. Stedman, on the 

piano. 

The nine graduates—Misses N. A. Lewis, 

E. Hollister, E. DaBelle, L. L. Jacokes, E. 

H. Casson, L. M. Mitchell, E. A. Taylor, 

J. M. Corby and E. C. Sanford, then took 

their places in front of the rostrum, while 

William S. Ely, M. D,, addressed them in 

the following words, after which they received 

from him their diplomas: 

Fifty years ago, standing in one of London's 

greatest hospitals, a distinguished 

English physician addressed a company of 

medical students in words, which with slight 

change may fittingly be repeated on this occasion. 

" Diseases are not abstractions—they are 

modes 'of acting, different from the natural 

and healthy modes, modes of suffering and 

modes of dying, and there must be a living, 

moving, sentient body for all this. This 

body must be your study, and your continual 

care, your active, willing, earnest care. 

Nothing must make you shrink from it. In 

its weakness and infirmities, in the dishonors 

of its corruption, you must still value it 

—still stay by it —to mark its hunger and 

thirst, its sleeping and waking, its heat and 

its cold ; to hear its complaints, to register 

its groans. And is it possible to feel an interest 

in all this ? Aye, indeed it is, a greater, 

far greater interest than ever painter or 

sculptor took in the form and beauties of its 

health. 

Whence comes this interest ? At first, 

perhaps, it seldom comes naturally. A mere 

sense of duty mus,t engender it; and still for 

awhile a mere sense of duty must keep it 

alive. Presently the quick, curious, restless 

spirit of science enlivens it, and then it becomes 

an excitement, and then a pleasure, 

and then the deliberate choice of the mind. 

When the interest of attending the sick 

has reached this point, there arises from it, 

or has already arisen, a skill in caring for 

patients. And the skill may exalt the interest, 

and the interest may improve the 

skill, until in process of time, experience 

forms the consummate nurse. But does the 

interest of nursing the sick necessarily stop 

here ? The question may seem strange. If 

it has led to the readiest discernment and 

the highest skill, and formed the consummate 

nurse, why need it go further ? But 

what if humanity shall warm it ? Then this 

interest, this excitement, this intellectual 

pleasure is exalted into a principle, and invested 

with a moral motive and passes into 

the heart. What if it be carried still further 

? What if religion should animate it ? 

Why then happy indeed is that woman 

whose mind, whose moral nature and whose 

spiritual being are all harmoniously engaged 

in the daily business of her life, with whom 

the same act has become her own happiness 

a dispensation of mercy to her fellow creatures, 

and the worship of God." 

Such a nurse each one of you may become 

if you have duly profited by the instruction 

offered to you in the hospital, and 

have a true idea of the character of your 

mission. 

Miss Willey again entertained the audience, 

this time reciting "The Old Clock on 

the Stairs," by Longfellow. The benediction 

pronounced by Dr. Osgood then closed 

the public exercises. 

Kind friends provided a class supper at 

the Hospital, which was greatly enjoyed 

later in the evening. +•+ 

A Card of Thanks. 

We wish to return our sincere thanks to those 

who so kindly remembered us with a Class 

Supper on the evening of March 25th. 

CLASS OF '86.


Annual Subscription. 

As the funds raised for the benefit of the 

City Hospital, on Donation Day and at other 

times, are inadequate to the payment of current 

expenses, and as usually about six months 

after Donation Day the managers are perplexed 

to know how to increase their resources, last 

June, in accordance with a custom adopted in 

many cities where the Hospitals are not largely 

endowed, a proposition was made, that there 

should be an annual subscription of five dollars 

for the benefit of the City Hospital. Many 

of our citizens cheerfully responded to this 

suggestion, and as the managers feel a pressing 

need of increasing their funds, it was decided 

at the monthly meeting of the Lady Managers, 

held at the Hospital, April 12th, that an appeal 

should at once be made, with a view of enlarging 

the number of those who are ready 

to aid the Hospital. If one thousand persons 

would contribute annually five dollars each, 

this would secure to the Hospital an additional 

income of $5,000. 

Persons who last year gave their names as 

annual subscribers will confer a favor on the 

managers, by sending to them or the Treasurer, 

Mrs. Win. H. Perkins, 174 Spring street, 

their names and the amount of their annual 

subscriptions ; those who left the city for their 

summer excursions last year, before the public 

appeal, are earnestly requested to indicate their 

interest in the Hospital by sending their names 

and the amount they are ready to contribute to 

the Treasurer or any of the Lady Managers, 

We all know that sickness is expensive. 

Large, airy, well ventilated rooms, nourishing 

food, quiet, and careful nursing, are the conditions 

that favor recovery from sickness, but 

they are often expensive essentials, and to provide 

these for the invalids the Managers now 

appeal to the liberality of our citizens, trusting 

that they will make a generous response. Subscriptions 

of any amount will be gratefully rec4ved. 

Gash Donations. 

Mrs. J. H. Martindale $100.00 

Gertie and Mamie Blakesley, May Car- ' 

penter, and Dottie Gilman 1.50 

DONATIONS IN BILLS. 

L. 8. Graves & Son 80 

Sam'l Sloan, on bedsteads for pavilion 12.00 

H. D. Ostermoor & Son, on mattresses. 5.56 



The New Pavilion. 

The furnishing of the new Children's Pavilion 

is progressing very rapidly. The 

Nursery in the second story is very attractive; 

we saw two dear little babies in it 

sleeping in one crib, but as their peepers 

were closed we could not tell whether they 

were blue or black-eyed, but they looked 

very peaceful and healthy, and I fancy they 

thought they had found very comfortable 

quarters. 

The large room north of the main entrance, 

on the ground floor, is appropriated 

as a Girls' Ward, and the one south of it as 

a Boys' Ward ; in both of these- quite a 

large number of beds have already been 

provided and furnished by kind friends. 

These beds are to be named for children, 

but the names of only a few of them have 

as yet been designated. Mrs. Freeman 

Clarke has furnished three beds for her 

grand children; one of these is a memorial 

cot for Freeman Clarke Webb; this is in 

the Boys' Ward, where Miss A. S. Mumford 

has furnished two beds, and Miss Henrietta 

Mumford, Mrs. John Ely, Mrs. Oscar Craig 

and Mrs. Wm. Hoyt have each furnished a 

bed. In the Girls' Ward a bed has been 

furnished by each of the following persons: 

Mrs. S. S. Gould, Jr., Seneca Falls; Mrs. 

Josiah Anstice, Mrs. S. L. Ettenheimer, 

Mrs. Fred. Allen, Mrs. J. C. Hart and Mrs. 

John Ely. Mrs. Hart has named her bed 

"The Isabel Bed" for herlittle daughter, 

and Mrs. John Ely calls hers " The Marguerita 

Bed," in honor of her baby niece. 

There are some very pretty small bureaus 

in the Girls' Ward, and others are to be 

placed in the Boys' Ward. Mrs. Freeman 

Clarke has given some very nice rugs 

and chairs, and her daughters Mrs. William 

Webb and Mrs. Fred Allen have given two 

very handsome small cherry cabinets for 

the wards. A number of pictures adorn the 

walls. Miss Anna Wild is to furnish a room 

that opens out of the Girls'Ward, and "The 

Julia and Edith Room," is a little gem. It



has been furnished by Julia Robinson and 

Edith Peck. The bedstead is of painted 

iron, ornamented with brass. The bureau, 

table, chairs and mirror frame are of cherry-wood, 

contrasting well with the blue toilet 

set, chair cushions,and fancy articles. "J u h" a 

and Edith Room" is embroidered in blue 

on the bureau and table scarfs, towels, &c. 

Conspicuous in this room is an engraving 

of Carl Mullers " Heilige Nacht," representing 

the infant Saviour in the manger. This 

is in memory of Katie Little, who died December 

ioth, 1882. Two pretty mats harmonizing 

with the other furniture adorn 

this room. 

Miss Lois Whitney has furnished a room 

that is to be named for the little girls who 

aided her in preparing articles for her table 

at the opening of the Pavilion. She has 

taken the initial letters of their Christian 

names and formed from these the word 

"Maleva," that is to designate the room. 

Children's Fair. 

On the afternoon of March 6th, Edith Peck 

and Julia Robinson held a fair at the house of 

Mr. Arthur Robinson, South Washington street, 

to raise money to furnish a room in the Children's 

Pavilion. They worked long and industriously, 

and collected a great variety of fancy 

and useful articles. 

Edith Peck and Julia Robinson had charge 

of the Fancy Table; Minnie Peck and Cornelia 

Robinson of the Basket Table; Charlie Robinson 

and Jane Porter Robinson of the Candy 

Table; and Alice Peck of the Ice Cream, Cake 

and Chocolate Table. 

Their receipts were $83, to which must be 

added a donation of of $20, and $5 from "Katie's 

Bank." 

Donations to Pavilion. 

Mr. G. E. Mumford, gas fixtures and chandeliers. 

Mrs. A. G. Yates, one chandelier. 

Mrs. H. Austin Brewsier, one chandelier. 

Mrs. Cochrane, one chandelier. 

Mrs. John H. Brewster, hall light. 

Misses Whitney, gas fixture. 

Mrs. S. J. Macy, gas fixture. 

Mr. W. H. Wilkins, gas fixtures. 


On the third of April we visited the Hospital 

and found that a large number of patients 

had died there the past month. One 

of these was brought to the Hospital in a 

dying condition, and another survived his 

arrival but two days. 

Ten were receiving treatment in the Male 

Surgical Ward. One man was confined to 

his cot; he had been driving over bad f roads, 

had been thrown from his wagon, and fractured 

his leg below the knee, and had also 

bruised his face. On the next cot the man 

with the burnt leg was sitting up, whittling 

window wedges, and interesting three boys 

who watched his work. An aged rheumatic 

patient was slowly moving about leaning on 

his cane ; another aged man had ulcers on 

his leg. A man who three weeks before had 

fallen down stairs and broken his wrist was 

doing well. George Griffin, the colored 

paralytic, an old servant of Gen. Martindale, 

has been in the Hospital since June 6th, 

1883 ; he died on the nth of March ; he 

has at times suffered much, and has required 

great care, but his last years were brightened 

by faithful hospital nursing. 

Four persons had died in the Male Medical 

Ward, two of them were paralytics, one 

had consumption, and the fourth, a German, 

had a diseased heart. One patient, a consumptive, 

was very low, he had been but a 

few weeks in the hospital, and was rapidly 

failing. Twenty-one were receiving treatment. 

Two of them were eye patients. 

The eczema patient had just been rubbed 

and had an application of oil, and was not 

very comfortable ; his faithful wife who h*as 

so constantly cheered him by her presence 

was by sickness prevented from visiting 

him, and he greatly missed her. 

No deatji had occurred in the Female 

Medical Wards where nine patients were 

confined to their cots, some of these were 

suffering from general debility, one, an English 

girl, had malarial fever; another, a


girl seventeen years old, had fallen while 

skating in a rink, and had injured her 

back; one mother had a beautiful baby 

three months old, it was her fifth child, but 

the mother needed Hospital care; one 

woman was suffering acutely with rheumatism 

in her arm, she had slept but one night 

for a week ; a cancer patient was very feeble 

; a patient who had come from the 

Home of the Friendless had a diseased 

heart and could not lie down ; Minnie Bryant 

had been more feeble than usual. 

There are four babies, four mothers, and 

six waiting patients in the Hospital. 

There is but little change in our young 

patients: the girl with St. Vitus's Dance 

has had a relapse, but is now better ; Tommy 

has three sores and Freddy one ; Max 

has had a new plaster of Paris jacket; Sarah 

and Theodocia are still being treated for 

curvature of the spine. 

Seventeen are receiving treatment in the 

Female Surgical Ward. One woman is confined 

to her cot with a broken leg; Tilly, 

from whose limb a piece of diseased 

flesh had been cut, is better, up and about 

the ward. 


Mary Louise Lawrance $ 25 

Mrs. James Laney 5.00 

Eunice VanAlstyne, Albany, by Minnie 

Peck 25 

A friend 1.00 

A friend, Detroit, Michigan 2.00 

Edith Peck and Julia Robinson 8.00 

Mr. Oliver Benedict, New Yo*k 1.00 

Mrs. Eliza Loop 10.00 

Mrs.H.F.Hart 1.00 

Mrs. R. B. Claxton, Philadelphia 5.00 

Miss Fannie Hooker, Skaneateles 25 

Receipts for the month $33.75 

Previously acknowledged $2,168.59 

Total receipts $2,202.34 

We still require $4,287.66 to complete the last 

payment on the Children's Pavilion, and free 

the building from the blemish of a debt. Contributions 

are urgently solicited to make up 

this amount, and should be sent to Mrs. Robert 

Mathews, 96 Spring street, the treasurer of the 

fund, or to any of the managers of the Hospital. 


Wanted. 

Furniture for two small rooms, east of 

the Female Medical Wards, that are to be 

fitted up for very sick persons who should 

be removed from the Female Wards. There 

are also needed a lounge,bureaus and chairs. 

This is the season of the year when housekeepers 

are rearranging their homes. Perhaps 

some of our friends can send us some 

second hand furniture that will be as useful 

to us as new. 

Help From the Little Folks. 

Four little girls,Gertie and Mamie Blakesley, 

May Carpenter and Dottie Gilman, had 

a Mikado entertainment and charged a 

penny a ticket. They earned a dollar and 

fifty cents, and brought it for the Pavilion 

Fund. Mrs. Mathews' report tells you how 

much is needed to pay the debt on the Pavilion, 

and we hope all the little folks will 

help us raise this amount. 

Boys' Clothing. 

We have boys ten, eleven and twelve 

years old, that are quite destitute of suitable 

clothing. Second hand garments will be 

very acceptable. 

Thanks. 

We are again indebted to Mr. E. Kuichling 

for handsomely lettering the Nurses' 

Diplomas. 

It is pleasant to notice the interest felt by 

the graduates of the Training School for 

Nurses in their Alma Mater. They love to 

come back to the Hospital, and feel as interested 

in its prosperity as do the graduates 

of our colleges in the institutions where 

they have received, their diplomas. 

Copies of the Review may be had of Mrs. 

Robert Mathews, 96 Spring street.




MARCH, 1886. 

Mrs. W. J. Averell, Ogdensburg, 50 cts.; 

James Pierson, Lockport, 50 cts., by 

Mrs. W. H. Perkins $1.00 

Odenbach & Shal«, 62 cts.: Dwight Palmer, 

adv., $3.00, by Mrs. M. M. Mathews 

5.62 

Mrs. S. J. Arnold, 62 cts; Mrs. L. H. Ailing, 

62 cts; Mrs. W. J. Ashley, 6a cts; 

Mrs. G. C. Buell, 62 cts; Mrs. D. W. 

Bush, 62 cts; Mrs. E. F. Brewster, 62c; 

Mrs. F. M. Bottum, 62 cts; Mrs. H. 

Hoyt, 62 cts; Mrs. H Howard, 62 cts; 

Mrs. C. E. Hart, 62c; Mrs. J. C. Moore, 

62 cts; P McConnell, 62 cts; Mrs. M. 

C. Phelan, 62 cts; Mrs. A. Reynolds, 

62 cts; Mrs. C. Rogers, 62 cts; Mrs. J. 

N. Smith, 62 cts; Mrs. C. B. Smith, 62 

cts., by Annie L. McEwan 10.54 

Mrs. C. P. Achilles, 65 cts; Mr. Edward 

Brewster, 50c; Mrs. Freeman Clarke, 

5 subs., $3.00; Mrs. A. J. Cuming, 62c; 

Mrs. W. D. Fitzhugh, Mt Morris, $2.50; 

Mrs. U. Meyer, 92 cts; Mr. J. Owens, 

Brockport, $1.00; Mrs. Benj. Rhodes, 

Niagara Falls, 50 cts; Mrs. A. Smith, 

Jacksonville, Florida, $1.00; Mrs. J.W. 

Swift, Fort Lowell, Arizona, §1.00, by 

Treasurer 12.02 

MRS. ROBERT MATHEWS, Treasurer, 

96 Spring St. 

Donations for March. 

Mrs. C. M. Lee, 12 pictures. 

Mr. J. W. Gillis, 4 picture frames. 

Mrs. M. Strong, reading matter. 

Mrs. Wm, L. Halsey, pictures for children. 

Miss Henrietta Mumford, reading matter for 

children. 

Lewis Chase, reading matter. 

Maria Ferreira, a quantity of reading matter, 

2 shawls for children, (1 marked Little Sarah), 

and several games. 

Edith Peck and Julia Robinson, jelly for the 

children. 

Miss Mumford, games, second hand clothing, 

reading matter, &c. 

Mrs. S. H. Terry, Scientific American and 

other papers. 

Misses Ferreira, Charlotte Russe and cake for 

surgical ward. 

W. S. Ely, M. D.,Vienna coffee pot, painting 

cards for bulletin bo^rd. 

H. B. Williams, bulletin board. 

Walter Hubbell Sill, 2 pairs of pillow cases. 

Mrs. Edward Cozzens, old linen and playthings 

for children. 

E. Darrow & Co., several copies of Harper's 

Weekly. 

Dr. Little, 6 rubber bags. 

Miss Laura W. Williams, books and toys. 

Friend, a quantity of "Graphics." 

Mrs. W. E. Hoyt, 1 towel rack. 

Old Cotton is always acceptable. 

Ued. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, March 1st, 

1886, of compression of the brain, August 

Kurrow. 

At the Hospital, March 2, 1886, of phthisis 

pulmonalis, Edward Bryant, aged 27 years. 

At the Hospital, March 6, 1886, .of aortic aneurism, 

Benedict Lehmann, aged 51 years. 

At the Hospital, March 8,1886, of abscess of 

left lung, Mrs. Dellphemeia Eisenburg, aged 26 

years 

At the Hospital, March 11,1886, of paralysis, 

George Griffin, aged 78 years. 

At the Hospital, March 14, 1886, an infant, 

22 days old. 

At the Hospital, March 20, 1886, of cerebral 

embolism, Henry Goodger, aged 72 years. 

At the Hospital, March 26th, 1886, of cerebrel 

embolism, John Weaver, aged 80 years. 

At the Hospital, March 27,18*56, of general 

debility, Mary S. Dunlap, aged 65 years. 

The dishes, baskets, &c, left at Powers' Hall 

at the Donation, have been sent to the Hospital 

except the following, which may still be found 

at the house of the Treasurer, 174 Spring St. 

1 gold banded china dish. 

1 white fluted dish. 

1 glass dish belonging to a fruit or flower 

stand. 

2 blue plates. 

1 glass salt cellar. 

5 deep tin baking pans. 

1 square tin pan to hold small cakes. 

1 olive fork. 

1 blood-stone scarf pin. 

1 gilt hat pin. 

1 horn shawl pin. 

1 piece of blue velvet chenille embroidery. 

MRS. W. H. PERKINS. 


Number in Hospital March 1, 1886 87 




'' deaths during month 9 

" remaining April 1, 1886 08 154 

The sacred page 

With calm attention scan! If on thy soul, 

As thou dost read, a ray of purer light 

Break in, oh check it not, give it full scope I 

Admitted, it will break the clouds which long 

Have dimmed thy sight, and lead thee, till at 

last 

Convictions like the sun's meridian beams 

Illuminate thy mind. Samuel Hayes. 

Faith is the subtle chain 

Which binds us to the Infinite ; the voice 

Of a deep life within, that will remain 

Until we crowd it thence.


" Dear Child, She Wanted to Help 

Me." 

BY MRS. HERRICK JOHNSON. 

I was sitting alone in the twilight, 

With spirit troubled and vexed, 

With thoughts that were morbid and gloomy 

And faith that was sadly perplexed. 

Some homely work I was doing 

For the child of my love and care ; 

Some stitches half wearily setting 

In the endless need of repair. 

But my thoughts were about the building, 

The work some day to be tried ; 

And that only the gold and the silver, 

And the precious stones should abide. 

And remembering my own poor efforts, 

The wretched work I had done, 

And even when trying most truly 

The meagre success I had won. 

"It's nothing but wood, hay and stubble," 

I said : '"It will all be burned— 

This useless fruit of the talents 

One day to be returned. 

"And I have so longed to serve him, 

And sometimes I know I have tried ; 

But I am sure when he sees such building 

He will never let it abide." 

Just then I turned the garment 

That no rent should be left behind, 

My eyes caught an odd little bundle 

Of mending and patchwork combined. 

My heart grew suddenly tender, 

And something blinded my eyes. 

With.one of those sweet intuitions 

That sometimes makes us so wise. 

Dear child, she wanted to help me ; 

I knew 'twas the best she could do ; 

But oh' what a botch she had made it— 

The gray mismatching the blue. 

And yet—can you understand it?— 

With a tender smile and a tear, 

And a half compassionate yearning, 

I felt her grown more dear. 

Then a sweet voice broke the silence, 

And the dear Lord said to me, 

"Art thou tenderer for the little child 

Than I am tender for thee ?" 

Then straightway 1 knew his meaning, 

So full of compassion and love, 

And my faith came back to its refuge, 

Like the glad returning dove. 

For I thought when the Master Builder 

Comes down his temple to view, 

To see what rents must be mended 

And what must be builded anew. 

Perhaps, as he looks o'er the building, 

He will bring my work to the light, 

And seeing my marring and bungling, 

And how far it is all from the right, 


He will feel as I felt for my darling, 

And will say a31 said to her, 

"Dear child she wanted to help me, 

And love for me was the spur. 

And for the real love that is in it, 

The work shall be perfect as mine ; 

And because it was willing service, 

I will crown it with plaudit divine." 

And there in the deepening twilight 

I seemed to be clasping a hand, 

And to feel a great love constrain me 

Stronger than any command. 

Then I knew by the thrill of sweetness 

'Twas the hand of the Blessed One 

Which would tenderly guide and hold me, 

Till all the labor is done. 

So my thoughts are never more gloomy, 

My faith no longer is dim. 

But my heart is strong and restful, 

And my eyes are unto him. 

A DOCTOR'S STOKY. 

Wine Inspires a Speech and Causes 

a Wife to toe Clutotoed. 

"You know nothing about intemper 

ance," said a noted physician. "I could 

write volumes that would amaze you." 

"Write one," I said. 

"It would be a breach of honor. A 

physician, like a Romish priest, may 

not betray the confessional." After a 

moment he added : "Our professions 

take us into homes, and lives and hearts 

that seem all bright and happy, are 

often dark and miserable from sickness 

of the soul." 

"There must be some scenes that it 

would be proper for you to tell me," I 

urged; "please think of some." 

"I was called to see the wife of a distinguished 

gentleman. Her husband 

sat by her bed fanning her; a lovely 

bouquet of flowers on the stand by her 

side. Two little girls were playing 

quietly in the room. It was a charming 

picture of love and devotion. 

" 'My wife fell down stairs, said her 

husband, ' and I fear has hurt herself 

seriously. 1 

"I examined her shoulder. It was 

swollen and almost black, and one rib 

was broken. 

'"How do you find her?" asked the 

husband anxiously. 

" 'I will ask the,question,if you please, 

how did you so injure yourself?'



"'I fell on the stairway.' 

" I hesitated, I was not in a Paddy 

shanty, but in the house of a wellknown 

and unstained man. I re-examined 

her side. 

" 'When did she fall ?' I asked. 

" 'Last night,' he said, after a second's 

pause and a glance at her. My 

resolve was taken. 

" 'Please show me the place on the 

stairs where she struck,' I said to the 

husband, rising and going out. He followed 

me. 

'"I was not with her when she fell, 

he said, hesitatingly. 

" 'The injury was not from a fall, and 

it was not done last night. Never try 

to deceive a doctor.' 

" 'She begged me not to tell you the 

truth.' 

" 'Then get another physician,' I said. 

" 'I will tell you the whole truth. 

Night before last I had been out to 

•dinner." 

" 'I saw your brilliant speech in the 

paper. Was it wine inspired V 

" 'Partly. Most after-dinner speeches 

are, to a degree. I came home excited 

t>y the fine dinner, wit, wisdom, and 

wine of the evening, and went, not to 

bed, but to the closet and drank heavily. 

My wife heard me and came down, 

hoping to coax me upstairs, as she had 

done many times. .But she was too 

late. My reason and manhood were 

gone, and I pounded her and left her. 

She tried to follow me but fell on the 

stairs. After a time she crawled, she 

says, upstairs, and went into the nursery 

and slept with the little girls. I slept 

late, and awoke with a fierce headache, 

and went out at once, thinking no 

breakfast and the out-door air would 

clear my brain for the morning engagements. 

I pledge you my honor I had 

forgotten I struck my wife. When I 

came back last night I found her crying 

; but she would not permit a physician 

to be sent for, lest it should disgrace 

me; I think she really tries to 

believe that she hurt herself, more or 

less when she fell.' And with an honest 

quiver of his lip he added : 'She is an 

angel and I am a devil.' 

"'And what are wine bibbers?" 

" 'Own children of their father. Is my 

wife seriously hurt ?" 

" 'I cannot tell yet. I fear she is.' 

" More absolute, untiring devotion no 

man ever gave, while she lived and suffered. 

When her true, noble, loving 

heart ceased to throb he was inconsolable. 

His love and devotion were the 

theme of every lip, and the Providence 

that so afflicted him was called 'strange' 

in a tone of semi-censure ! On her tomb 

is cut the ' beloved wife!' He has gone 

to her now, in the land of no license ! 

" No one but myself ever knew the 

truth.''—National Temperance Advocate. 

How Long Shall we Sleep. 

The fact is, that as life becomes concentrated, 

and its pursuits more eager, 

short sleep and early rising become impossible. 

We take more sleep than our 

ancestors, and we take more because we 

want more. Six hours' sleep will do 

very well for a ploughman or bricklayer, 

or any other man who has no exhaustion 

but that produced by manual labor, 

and the sooner he takes it after his labor 

is over the better. But for a man 

whose labor is mental, the stress of work 

is on his brain and nervous system, and 

for him who is tired in the evening with 

a day of mental application, neither 

early to bed nor early to rise is wholesome. 

He needs letting down to the 

level of repose. The longer the intervals 

between the active use of the brain 

and his retirement to bed, the better 

his chance of sleep and refreshment. 

To him an hour after midnight is probably 

as good as two hours before it, 

and even then his sleep will not so completely 

and quickly restore him as it 

will his neighbor who is physically tired. 

He must not only go to bed later, but 

lie longer. His best sleep probably lies 

in the early morning hours, when all 

the nervous excitement has passed 

away, and he is in absolute rest. 

There wants nothing but a believing 

prayer to turn the promise into a performance.


Only Me. 

A little figure glided through the hall; 

"Is that you. Pet ?" the words came tenderly, 

A sob—suppressed to let the answer fall— 

" It isn't Pet, mamma; it's only me." 

The quivering baby lips!—they had not meant 

To utter any word could plant a sting ; 

But to that mother-heart a strange pang went, 

She heard, and stood like a convicted thing. 

One instant, and a happy little face 

Thrilled 'neath unwonted kisses rained above; 

And from that moment, Only Me had place 

And part with Pet in tender mother-love. 

The more believers love God, the 

more they love one another ; as the 

lines of a circle, the nearer they come 

to the centre the nearer they come to 

each other.—Charnock. 

Whosoever will, let him take the 

water of life freely. Take Jesus as he 

offers himself to you, and all the blessings 

of life and glory are yours forever. 

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I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME.' 

VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 15, 1886. No. 10 

A Beautiful Poem by an Unknown 

Author. 

To the Editor of the Detroit Free Press: 

Among my papers for many years has been 

the manuscript of a little poem, the author of 

which I have never known, nor can I now 

remember how it came into my hands. I do 

not think that it has ever been in print and 

inclose yon a copy. I do not know whether 

arbutus is found in your Michigan woods, but 

many in this city will remember 

" Kneeling in damp inosses, 

With their hands among the leaves," 

in their earlier homes among the New York or 

New England hills. Such will, I think, agree 

with me that the unknown singer has caught 

something of the grace and fragrance of the 

dainty flower he celebrates. By the way, it is 

a ruthless bit of vandalism for modern editors 

of Webster and Worcester to place the accent 

upon the first syllable of arbutus and place so 

much good verse under the shadow of incorrectness. 

WALTER BUELL. 

Detroit, April 15. 

ARBUTUS. 

We were seeking but arbutus, 

My fair laughing love and I; 

Nor would even violets suit us, 

For we passed them ever by. 

And we scorned to pluck wild pansies, 

Purpling banks within our reach; 

Ah ! we had sweet thoughts without them, 

That had never yet found speech. 

" I have found it!" cried my lady, 

Showing buds cool winds had fanned ; 

"Is it mine?'' I asked, inclosing 

More than flowers, within my hand. 

Ah ! that moment, by ambitions 

Hid from even memory's light; 

With dead hopes as thickly covered, 

As those flowers, by leaves, from sight.



Yet as surely as the spring comes, 

With that feeling in the air, 

Of a subtle life pervading 

Root and branch, now brown and bare, 

I am haunted by this memory, 

Changing with a varying power, 

Till each rapturous thought reviving 

Seems the echo of one hour. 

Standing last night in a ball-room 

I but caught the fleeting glance 

Of a fair young face, uplifted 

In the pauses of the dance. 

Toward dark eyes that were bestowing 

More than woman oft receives— 

I was kneeling in damp moBses, 

With my hands among the leaves. 

In the years that were before them, 

Will that waltz tune ever be. 

What some slight thing is to most men, 

What arbutus is to me ? 

For THE HOSPITAL REVIEW. 

Consul Jar vis and his Merinos. 

At the recent convention of wool growers 

and sheep shearers held at Honeove Falls, N. 

Y., April 27th, Mr. John P. Ray, of Richmond, 

alludes to the late Mr. Jarvis, American Consul 

at Lisbon, and his Merino sheep. By so doing, 

he awakens pleasant memories of summer vacations 

and winter evenings spent at Weathersfield 

Bow, where, under the shadow of Mt. 

Ascutney, among the green hills of Vermont, 

Consul Jarvis reared his imported Merinos, and 

in his hospitable home entertained his guests 

with incidents associated with Napoleon's invasion 

of Spain and Portugal, and the political 

influences that, at the beginning of the present 

century, opened the door for the exporting 

of the Spanish Merinos. 

For more than a thousand years, the Spanish 

government had protected and cherished 

her fine-wooled sheep, and it was estimated 

that, at the time of the French invasion, there 

were six millions of them within her provinces. 

These were divided into two classes, the Transhumantes, 

or traveling sheep, and the Estantes, 

or stationary ones; the former were greatly 

superior to the latter. These were owned in 

flocks of from 5,000 to 30,000, the larger ones 

being placed under a Mayoral, who had the 

entire control of the flock, and annually accounted 

to the owner for the net income. Two 

shepherds, four dogs, and a pack hoi se or mule 

were allowed for every thousand sheep 

The Transhumantes were divided into three 

classes, the Leonesa, the Segovian, and the 

Sorian. The Leonesa were esteemed the finest 

sheep in Spain, and in summer were pastured 

on the hills of Leon and the two Castries, and 

in winter on the plains of Spanish Estremadura. 

They usually migrated in April and 

October, and very wide roads and ample pasture 

grounds were provided by law to supply 

their needs during their journeys. The shepherd-dogs 

that accompanied them were large, 

strong animals, resembling the St. Bernard 

dogs, and capable of defending the flocks from 

wolves that were liable to attack the sheep in 

their mountain pastures. The sheep were 

sheared in May, and the wool sent to St. Andero 

and Bilboa for sale. 

The laws of Spain made the exporting of 

sheep a crime, punishable with death. 

The sheep that were sent to New York, by 

Chancellor Livingston, Minister to France, 

were from a flock that the King of France had 

obtained from the King of Spain. 

Col. David Humphreys, Minister to Spain, 

when retiring from office, in 1802, was offered 

the customary present of a number of bars of 

silver, but declined the gift, on the ground 

that its acceptance would be a violation of the 

laws of the United States but afterwards indicated 

that, for the benefit of his country, he 

would accept some Merinos. Be was informed 

that the laws of Spain would not allow such a 

gift, but that, "doubtless he might obtain some 

himself, and no notice would be taken of it." 

He profited by the suggestion, bought one hundred 

pure Merinos, that, with proper passports, 

under the care of a small guard of Portuguese 

soldiers, were safely conducted to Lisbon, and 

in April, 1802, were shipped for Derby, Conn., 

where, after a fifty days' voyage, all but nine, 

that died on the passage, were safely landed. 

At this time, Mr. Jarvis was Consul to Portugal, 

and Charge d' Affaires at Lisbon, and 

stimulated by Mr. Humphreys' success, he 

made efforts to obtain Merinos for himself, but 

learned that at that time it was impossible to 

procure them. He watched patiently for the 

right moment, and his official position as 

American Consul kept him posted on Spanish 

affairs, and, a few years later, in 1809, at the 

time of Napoleon's invasion, when Spain was 

distracted with civil discensions and foreign 

aggressions, he was more successful, and purchased 

and sent to the United States, two hundred 

of the royal Escurials—the only Escurials 

that ever came to this country. The Escurial 

flock formerly belonged to Philip It, but when 

he built the Escurial palace, he gave the sheep, 

as a source of revenue, to the friars who occupied 

the convent connected with the palace. 

Mr. Jarvis first shipped twelve of his Escurials 

with a shepherd, and instructed his consignee 

not to sell them for less than a hundred 

and fifty dollars apiece. One sheep died on 

the passage ; the remaining eleven sold for fifteen 

thousand dollars. Twelve more of this 

flock were sent to Alexandria; two of these 

were given to Ex-President Jefferson, and two 

to President Madison. 

When Napoleon's armies a second time invaded 

Spain, and under Joseph Bonaparte approached 

Madrid, the Junta, the High Court 

of State, fled to Badajos, and, in order to raise 

funds, authorized the sale of some of the confiscated 

sheep that were pasturing in Eatremadura. 

The first four flocks that were sold by 

the Junta were the Paulars, Aguirres, Negretes 

and Montarcos. 

The Paular flock once belonged to the Carthusian 

friars of Paular, on the borders of Andalusia, 

w ho paid great attention to their horses


and sheep. The novitiates for the priesthood 

were required, after their matins, to spend a 

portion of each day in superintending the shepherds. 

When Don Manuel de Godoy, Prince 

of the Peace, the favorite of Charles IV, came 

into power, he purchased the Paular flock, and 

when he was banished to Italy, it was confiscated 

by the Junta, and afterwards sold to replenish 

their exhausted finances. 

Four thousand of the Paulars were purchased 

and sent to England, for the King ; the remainder 

were bought by Col. John Downie, 

commissary of the British army, and by. William 

Jarvis, on the condition that the Junta 

would grant licenses to carry them out of 

Spain. 

The care that was taken to secure certificates 

of the identity of the Paular sheep, indicates 

the high estimate in which they were held by 

the Spanish authorities. 

The family of Mr. Jarvis, still retains many 

curious papers relating to this flock. The following 

extracts are translations of some of 

them : 

CERTIFICATE AND PASSPORT FROM THE SECRE- 

TARY OF THE JUNTA. 

" I, Don Fermin Coronado, Honorary Paymaster 

of the Army, General of the Masterships 

of Military Orders, Rents and Confiscations, 

Secretary to the Governmental Junta of 

the Province of Estremadura, in the Department 

of Real Estate, and its Commission of 

Subsistence, and the direction of Cabanas, etc., 

•etc.— 

"Do hereby certify that the said Governmental 

Junta, by its decree of the 24th of the 

present month, has sold to Col. John Downie, 

Commissary of the British army, two thousand 

eight hundred and fifteen ewes, eleven hundred 

and thirty males (3,945 in all) ; eighteen dogs, 

five shepherd ponies, and five mess ketcles, all 

pertaining to the Cabana, confiscated from Don 

Manuel Godoy, called the Paular Flock, and 

which are to have a free passage to Lisbon, or 

any other convenient pt>rt. And, at the request 

of the said Commissary, I give this certificate 

at the city of Badajos, on the 25th day of June, 

1810. 

FERMIN CORONADO." 

The passportjfrom the Marquis of Romana, 

Captain General of the Spanish armies (after 

enumerating a long list of his titles), grants "a 

safe passport to Cipriano Garcia Elias, to take 

to Lisbon a flock from the sheep-farm del Paular, 

confiscated from Don Manuel Godoy, and 

sold by the Junta of this Province to the English 

Commissary General, Don Juan Downie. 

The military and civil authorities along his 

route will put no hindrance in his way ; he is 

accompanied by four shepherds. 

"All civil officers, therefore, subject to my 

jurisdiction, are directed, and all others are urgently 

requested, not to allow any impediment 

to his journey, but to give him all necessary 

assistance, in accordance with the royal service. 

Given at headquarters, Badajos, the 25th 

day of June, 1810. 

ROMANA." 

On the left of the name is engraved the 

royal arms of Spain. 


CERTIFICATE OF THE MAYORAL, DON JOSE AL- 

VAREZ Y SUARES. 

'' I, Don Jose Alvarez y Suares, Mayoral of 

the fine Transhumante Leonesa Cabana, called 

the Paular, certify, that for ten years previous 

to the sale of this flock, I was the assistant 

mayoral, during which time it belonged to the 

Carthusian Order, del Paular ; that in the year 

1795 it was sold by the said Carthusian Order 

to Don Manuel de Godoy, Prince of Peace, in 

which year I entered upon the sole charge of 

it, and so remained for fourteen years, making 

in all, twenty-four years previous to the confiscation 

by the government of the property of 

the said Godoy, that I have had charge of it, 

and during all this time, there has been no 

mixture of any other cabana with this ; and 

that at this date, there has been sold by the 

Governmental Junta of the Province of Estremadura, 

to John Downie, Col. of the royal 

armies of Spain, and Commissary General of 

the British army, two thousand eight hundred 

and fifteen ewes, and eleven hundred and 

thirty-two males (in all, 3,947), all of the best 

quality and condition, from the said flock, this 

cabana being the choicest and best of the kingdom, 

and its wool being held in the highest estimation 

in foreign countries. 

In evidence of which, I give this certificate, 

at the good castle of Piedra, where the flock 

has been delivered, this a7th day of June. 1810. 

JOSE ALVAREZ Y SUARES. 

" I also certify, that as mayoral of this cabana, 

I have accompanied it to Lisbon, in accordance 

with directions from the Junta of 

Estremadura ; and in my presence Col. Downie 

has delivered to Don Guillermo Jarvis, the 

number of seven hundred and fifty ewes, and 

two hundred and fifty males, making in all, 

one thousand head, of the same cabana del 

Paular ; and in truth of which I hereunto set 

my hand at this city of Lisbon, this 10th Julv 

1810. *' 

JOSE ALVAREZ Y SUARES." 

Mr. Jarvis was very anxious to introduce into 

the United States the Spanish sheep ; and 

therefore purchased, shipped from Lisbon, and 

sent to this country, fourteen hundred Paulars, 

seventeen hundred Aguirres, two hundred Escurials, 

one hundred and thirty Negretes, and 

two hundred Montarcos (in all 3,630), more than 

all others together. He said, "they were such 

sheep as could not have been obtained in Spain, 

had it not been for the invasion of the French' 

and the distracted state of the country resulting 

therefrom." About one hundred of these sheep 

were sent to Wiscasset and Portland, eleven 

hundred to Boston and Newburyport, fifteen 

hundred to New York, three hundred and fifty 

to Baltimore, one hundred to Alexandria, and 

two hundred to Norfolk and Richmond. 

When Mr. Jarvis retired from public life, and 

returned to his native land, he intended to 

purchase a plantation in Virginia, and stock it 

with superior breeds of animals, but he finally 

selected, as his future home, a very large, fertile 

and valuable farm at Weathersfield, Vermont, 

on the bank of the Connecticut River where it 

makes a bow. It was a warm, sunny spot, 

sheltered by high hills, within a few miles of



Mt. Ascutney, one of the Green Mountain range. 

Its rich meadows and neighboring hills offered 

good pasturage for the imported Merinos. 

The Paular shepherds had selected for Mr. 

Jarvis three hundred sheep; half of these were 

Paulars, a fourth Aguirres, one eighth Escurials 

and the other eighth Montarcos and Negretes. 

^These had been shipped to Newburyport, and 

in 1811, under charge of a Spanish shepherd, 

a shepherd dog, Coronel, and a favorite pointer, 

Piniasco, they were driven from Newburyport 

to the Consul's new farm at Weathersfield Bow. 

A hundred more sheep came from Boston, and 

among the live stock were Dutch cattle. Portuguese 

swine, goats and donkeys, and Virginia 

horses. 

The green hills of Vermont were rich summer 

pasture grounds for the Merinos, but the 

rigorous wintry blasts were not like the milder 

airs of the Estremadura plains, and the foreign 

sheep were therefore wintered and fed in large, 

commodious barns built for them near the 

Consul's house. The lambs born in the early 

spring were most carefully nurtured. I have 

often heard the second wife of William Jarvis 

say that when in the spring of 1817, she came 

as a bride to Weathersfield, she was shocked to 

find one of the best and sunniest rooms in the 

house devoted to the use of young lambs, where 

clad in warm jackets they were tenderly reared. 

In conformity to Spanish custom, Mr. Jarvis 

bred his respective flocks of Merinos separately, 

till 1816 or 1817, when he mixed them. He 

found in 1834, by comparing samples of his 

recent clippings, with those of the Paular flock 

that he had received when in Lisbon, that his 

flock had improved. 

Believing that the prosperity of his country 

would be largely promoted by encouraging 

American manufactories, for many years he 

had some of his own wool manufactured into 

flannel and fulled cloth, and, regardless 

of appearance, wore garments made from 

it himself, and used it for winter clothing 

for his children. Blue flannel suits are now 

the fashionable costume of our seaside resorts, 

but when, fifty or sixty years ago, the Consul's 

daughters appeared in Boston, in their highnecked, 

long-sleeved, blue merino flannel dresses, 

they looked quite outre to those not" to the 

manner born." 

For nearly half a century William Jarvis 

was the life and centre of Weathersfield Bow. 

He was farmer, physician, banker, friend. He 

never lost his interest in the Merinos. His 

home was the synonym for hospitality, culture 

and good cheer, and seldom did a relative depart 

from it without a substantial remembrance 

in the form of merino flannel, made at 

his woolen factory at Quechee. 

I last visited Mr. Jarvis in the summer of 

1857, and found him, at the age of eighty-seven 

hale and healthy, full of life, vivacity and anecdote, 

courtly in his manners, and more 

genial and hospitable than almost any other 

man I ever met. Every day, just after breakfast, 

a small Canadian pony was brought to 

his gate, and, mounted on that, with his feet 

reaching almost to the ground, he would take 

his morning ride, survey his broad acres, 

and sometimes greet bis only son as he returned 

from "salting" the Merinos. 

Of the ten children born in the Weathersfield 

Homestead but three survive. Its present 

occupant is a daughter of William Jarvis, the 

wife of Col. Leavitt Hunt, a brother of the late 

William M. Hunt, the American painter. 

Artistic decorations and modern improvements 

have added their attractions to the spot, but 

we doubt not among the inherited and treasured 

possessions may still be found some of Consul 

Jarvis' Merinos. 

H. S. T. 

The First Hindoo Female M. D. 

From the New York Observer. 

I have just attended a meeting of unusual 

interest and significance. Our 

beautiful Academy of Music was filled, 

tier upon tier, with an expectant assembly, 

gathered to witness the exercises of 

the thirty-fourth annual Commencement 

of the Woman's Medical College 

of Pennsylvania. This is the oldest 

institution of its kind in the world. Its 

existence and prosperity are full of 

meaning, but what gave a special interest 

to to-day's proceedings was the fact that 

in the graduating class, there was a 

Hindoo woman of high caste, Mrs. 

Anandibai Joshee, who goes forth, the 

first of her sex in India, a regular diplomated 

doctor of medicine. Her husband, 

late an official under the Indian 

Government, came to this country to 

witness her graduation. There came, 

also, her friend, the learned Pundita 

Ramabia, a native of the Madras Presidency, 

who, for two years, has occupied 

the chair of Sanskrit in a Woman's 

college in Cheltenham, England. 

When the audience had filled the 

house, the Corporators of the College, 

headed by the President, T. Morris 

Perot, filed in, and took seats upon the 

stage. With them came the Pundita 

Ramabai, leading by the hand her young 

daughter. She was dressed in a flowing 

white robe, a part of this serving as a 

hood to cover her dark hair. Her complexion 

was light for a Hindoo, and her 

face seemed young. The little girl had 

tresses of raven blackness, and the face 

of a typical Hindoo. For the moment, 

these two were the cynosure of all eyes, 

diverting attention from the lady mem-


bers of the Faculty, who now came in, 

led by the Dean, Dr. Rachel L. Bodley. 

After these were seated on the broad 

stage, the students came in a body, 

graduates and undergraduates, and occupied 

the seats immediately in front 

of the stage. 

The graduating class numbered thirtythree. 

The four continents were represented, 

Europe, by one from Russia; 

Asia by two from India, one of these the 

daughter of an American missionary, 

the other, Mrs. Joshee; Africa by an 

intelligent looking negro, and America 

by the remaining twenty-nine from 

twelve States of the Union. When the 

young Hindoo doctor appeared, there 

was loud applause. She was richly 

dressed in native costume, and seemed 

little over four and a half feet in height. 

The exercises were the customary 

ones on such occasions. Rev. Dr. 

McCook, of the Tabernacle Presbyterian 

church, whose recent book on the 

"Women Friends of Jesus" has been 

favorable received, was very fittingly 

chosen to make the opening prayer. 

After the prayer Dean Bodley called 

the graduates by name to the platform. 

They formed two successive arcs about 

the President's chair, receiving from 

him legal notification of their having 

obtained the degree of M. D. A diploma 

was passed from hand to hand. 

An interesting and sensible address was 

then made to the graduates by Prof. 

Clara Marshall, M. D., who reminded 

them of the dignity of their calling, and 

exhorted them to pursue it with untiring 

energy and unsullied purity. After 

the distribution of boquets and gifts the 

exercises closed with the benediction. 

We may well wish God's special favor 

to rest upon Dr. Anandibai Joshee, as 

she goes to carry the blessings of 

Christian science to her country-women 

in India. Her coming will mark an 

epoch in the medical treatment of the 

millions of the women of that land. 

Her sisters will not lose caste by her 

touch when she ministers to them. But 

what is one among so many? Already 

the medical women of our American 

missions have done something toward 


alleviating the miseries that suffering 

and sickness entail upon the women of 

India, but a native Brahmin doctor, a 

woman, will be about as great a benefaction 

as America could send to the 

Hindoo world. The Pundita, as she 

sat before the vast audience in the Academy, 

was the only spectator there who 

could entirely appreciate the significance 

of the scene, when her Hindoo 

sister came up with her American fellow 

students to receive from this Pennsylvania 

college her degree as a Doctor of 

Medicine. JOSEPH H. DULLES. 

Another munificent gift has been 

made by the Vanderbilt family to the 

College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

The gift is by Cornelius, William K., 

Frederick W., and George W. Vanderbilt, 

who have each contributed the sum 

of $62,500, making a total of $250,000, 

with which they propose the erection of 

a building on the grounds on the corner 

of Sixtieth street and Tenth avenue— 

given the college by their father—to be 

known as the Vanderbilt Clinic of the 

College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

The building, which the sons intend to 

be a memorial \o their father, will be 

used for the purpose of clinical teaching 

exclusively. All the clinical lectures 

now given in the college building will 

be delivered there, and a number of 

small rooms will be provided for private 

clinical instruction to students. It will 

be virtually a large dispensary. 

Joaquin Miller says the graveyard on 

the old battlefield of New Orleans "is 

beautiful enough to make one in love 

with death." it is at once an orangegrove 

and flower-garden. The gardeners 

and grave-diggers have gathered a 

pyramid of British cannon-balls. The 

lines from the Confederate poet, Gen. 

O'Hara, are set up on a bronze tablet 

at the gate of every Federal graveyard, 

I believe, in the United States: 

"On Fame's eternal camping-ground 

Their silent tents are spread; 

And Glory guards with solemn round 

The bivouac of the dead."




ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 15, 1886. 


On the first Tuesday of March we visited 

the Hospital and found the grounds veryattractive 

in their Spring verdure. The 

bright dandelions gave a golden hue to the 

lawn, and the pickaxes, spades, pounders, 

and other tools piled together at the gateway, 

ready for removal, indicated work had 

been accomplished on the grounds. A new 

stone walk had been laid from the main 

walk to the front steps of the Children's 

Pavilion, and the lawn, that had been necessarily 

marred by the erection of the Pavilion, 

had been graded, under the direction of Mr. 

Gorsline, partially sodded and seeded. The 

bank west of the Pavilion had been sodded 

and everything around the new building 

seemed in good order. Many of the patients 

were seated under the trees and on the 

steps of the Pavilion. 

In one of the small Pavilions were a 

brother and sister sick with the scarlet 

fever, and in the other the man with a gangrenous 

foot had had it amputated. 

Fifteen were under treatment in the Male 

Surgical Ward ; four of these were confined 

most of the time to the bed. The man with 

a burnt limb was able to sit up a little while 

each afternoon, but his limb heals very 

slowly. A man who had shot himself twice, 

near the eye, was sitting in a rocking chair 

with bandages about his head. 

One man who had fallen in an elevator 

had suffered from a compound dislocation 

of one of his finger joints, and for some time 

his memory was weakened and his mind wandering, 

but he was improving. Another man 

who, in consequence of the breaking of an 

elevator rope, had fallen more than forty 

feet, had crushed his heel bone which had 

penetrated the flesh of his right foot; he had 

also broken the bone of his left ankle, and 

dislocated one of his fingers. He was doing 

remarkably well. The man who had been 

thrown from and run over by a cart, fracturing 

his leg, was gaining and expecting 

soon to sit up. 

There were twenty-one patients in the 

Male Medical Ward. Four of these kept 

their beds. Mr. Pratt who had been in the 

Hospital since February, 1883, had died 

of cerebral apoplexy. One man had cancer 

of the throat, his case being very much 

like that of Gen. Grant; another had cancer 

of the neck. A young English Jew was 

brought to the Hospital in the ambulance, 

he was but eighteen years old, had difficulty 

in breathing, pain in the chest and was unable 

to lie down. Two years before he had 

a similar attack, and appeared to be suffering 

from some disease of the heart. One 

man had diseased heart and lungs ; another 

wa?convalescing from nervous attacks; two 

had rheumatism. The eczema patient was 

trying a new kind of ointment which it was 

hoped would benefit him. 

There were twenty inmates of the Female 

Medical Ward, four of whom were confined 

to their beds. A cancer patient had died. 

. Of the sixteen patients of the Female 

Surgical Ward three were confined to their 

cots. One woman had had a cataract removed 

the day previous. The patient with 

fractured thigh was improving. The chronic 

patients had changed but little. 

In the Nursery were six babies, but one 

of whom was over four weeks old ; the 

youngest was nine days old. There were six 

mothers and four waiting patients. 

THE LITTLE FOLKS. 

We found Max Kraus, the German boy, 

who wears the plaster of Paris jacket and 

the head harness, and Freddy Lyons, who 

has an abscess on the hip, each with a crutch 

beside him, sitting on the door steps, while 

Tommy Heeney, who has also an abscess, 

was standing near them as they threw and 

caught bags of beans, using them instead of 

balls. They seemed very happy to play out 

of doors. George Doane whose eyes have


159 

troubled him, was wfthin doors. Frank N. 

Brown, a boy fifteen years old, who was 

catching a ride on the cars, fell off at Coldwater, 

where he was run over and one leg 

fearfully crushed and the other broken. 

Three hours after the accident he was 

brought to the Hospital, his wounds examined 

and stimulants given him, but he failed 

very fast only living a few hours. Daniel 

Akey was stabbed in his left side by an Italian 

who sold peanuts ; Dan was in bed but 

very comfortable and free from pain. The 

little girl from the Church Home had recovered 

from the St. Vitus's Dance and was 

playing on the back lawn with Theodosia 

Banta,who has a curvature of the spine, and 

with Mary Ella Thompson, a little girl ten 

years old who fell and hurt her knee, but 

who is now nearly well. Sarah, the happy 

little colored girl,was in bed. Max has been 

home and spent two days with his friends, 

he says he liked to be at home because he 

could sit up as late as he wanted to. 

The New Payilion. 

The Children's Pavilion is nearly furnished 

and when some wire screens have been 

put on the west windows the children are to 

be removed to it. It looks very attractive. 

Several new beds and rugs and pictures 

have been placed in it, and there are pretty 

wash stand bureaus in the Boys' Ward like 

those in the Girls' Ward. The "Paul" room, 

named for Paul C. Wild, three years old, is 

furnished with iron and brass bedstead, 

cherry bureau and tables, pretty rugs and 

chairs, and six lovely pictures. The toilet 

set and other fancy articles are of blue, contrasting 

well with the cherry wood. An 

Easter Memorial of $30 is sent us for the 

"Arthur and Howard L. Yates bed." Mrs. 

L. S. Ettenheimer calls her bed the "Estelle 

Bed." 

Copies of the Review may be obtained of 

Mrs. Robert Mathews, 96 Spring Street. 

Annual Subscription. 

As the funds raised for the benefit of the 

City Hospital, on Donation Day and at other 

times, are inadequate to the payment of current 

expenses, and as usually about six months 

after Donation Day the managers are perplexed 

to know how to increase their resources,, last 

June, in accordance with a custom adopted in 

many cities where the Hospitals are not largely 

endowed, a proposition was made, that there 

should be an annual subscription of five dollars 

for the benefit of the City Hospital. Many 

of our citizens cheerfully responded to this 

suggestion, and as the managers feel a pressing 

need of increasing their funds, it was decided 

at the monthly meeting of the Lady Managers, 

held at the Hospital, April 12th, that an appeal 

should at once be made, with a view of enlarging 

the number of those who are ready 

to aid the Hospital. If one thousand persons 

would contribute annually five dollars each, 

this would secure to the Hospital an additional 

income of $5,000. 

Persons who last year gave their names as 

annual subscribers will confer a favor on the 

managers, by sending to them or the Treasurer, 

Mrs. Wm. H. Perkins, 174 Spring street, 

their names and the amount of their annual 

subscriptions ; those who left the city for their 

summer excursions last year, before the public 

appeal, are earnestly requested to indicate their 

interest in the Hospital by. sending their names 

and the amount they are ready to contribute to 

the Treasurer or any of the Lady Managers, 

We all know that sickness is expensive. 

Large, airy, well ventilated rooms, nourishing 

food, quiet, and careful nursing, are the conditions 

that favor recovery from sickness, but 

they are often expensive essentials, and to provide 

these for the invalids the Managers now 

appeal to the liberality of our citizens, trusting 

that they will make a generous response. Subscriptions 

of any amount will be gratefully received. 

RESPONSE. 

Last month we published the above appeal 

and in response the following donations have 

been received. We hope next month to publish 

the names and gifts of many more friends: 

By Mrs. C. E. Mathews: 

Mrs. C. E. Mathews $5.00 

Mrs. Robt. Mathews 5.00 

Robt. Mathews 5.00 

Mrs. W. Pitkin 5.00


By Mrs. H. F. Huntington : 

Mrs. H. F. Huntington $5.00 

Judge Danforth 5.00 

A Friend 5.00 

By Mrs. Max Landsberg: 

H. Michaels 5.00 

Jos. Michaels 5.00 

M. Strauss 5.00 

I. Stern 5.00 

I. M. Sloman 5 00 

Mrs. Leo S. Stein 5.00 

S. Stern 5.00 

J. M. Wile 5.00 

M. Brickner 5.00 

Mrs. Leah Rosenberg 5.00 

Michael Filon 5.00 

By Mrs. W. H. Perkins: 

C. P. Dewey 5.00 

Sill Stove Works 5.00 

Jas. Brackett 5.00 

Mrs. Chas. FitzSimons 5.00 

Mr Willis 5 00 

By Miss Whitney: 

Mrs. Geo. W. Smith, N. Y 5.00 

Mrs. S. G. Andrews 5.00 

Miss Whitney 5.00 

By Mrs. W. E. Hoyt 10.00 

By Mrs. M. Strong: 

Mrs. Oscar Craig 5.00 

Mrs. Samuel Gould 5.00 

Mrs. C. B. Woodworth 5.00 

Mrs. Elmer C. Smith 5 00 

Mrs. J. H.Kent 5.00 

Mrs. Maltby Strong 5.00 

By Mrs. J. H. Brewster: 

Mrs. D. M. Gordon 5 00 

Mrs. Horace Brewster 5.00 

Mrs. Henry C. Brewster 5.00 

Mrs. S. L. Brewster 5.00 

Mr. J. H. Brewster 5.00 

A Friend 5.00 

Mrs. E. F. Brewster 5.00 

Mrs. J. H. Brewster 5.00 

By Mrs. Henry H. Morse: 

Mrs. Alfred Ely 10.00 

Mrs. Charles E. Hart 5.00 

Mrs. Alexander Thompson 5.00 

The following persons have been received 

into the Nurses' Training School : Miss M. 

A. Sercomb, Cleveland, Ohio; Miss M. L. 

Davidson, Johnstown, N. Y.; Miss H. E. 

Bessee, Rome, N. Y.; also the following 

probationers : Miss C. P. Andrews, Norwich, 

N. Y.; Miss S. E. Hyatt, Gilford Village, 

N. H.; and Miss S. M. Read, Rochester, 

N. Y. 

A friend of the Hospital who has been 

cared for by a trained nurse in a recent illness, 

has given ten dollars to our Training 

School, as an expression of her appreciation 

of the care she received when ill. 

A Memory. 

It is now a long while, dear children, 

since we first introduced you to Rosa Uehlin, 

our little German friend, who came to 

the Hospital September i8th, 1883. She 

was then twelve years old, and was suffering 

from a chronic abscess on the lower part of 

her left thigh, which had kept her in bed, at 

the Industrial School, most of the time since 

July. She was a beautiful child, with very 

expressive features, soft, wavy hair, and 

dark, bright eyes. She had a face a painter 

would delight to copy, and she was as lovely 

as she was beautiful. Her sweet, gentle 

manners made her a favorite in the Hospital, 

and we know to many of you her name 

is a household word. For long, weary 

months Rosa has been a sufferer, her abscess 

discharging sometimes in several 

places, but she was always patient, uncomplaining 

and cheerful, and everybody loved 

her. She was an industrious little girl, and 

when too unwell to go out on the lawn, 

busied herself with her needle. Dr. L. used 

to call her little Jenny Wren, she made so 

many dresses for her dolls. 

Once again we must ask you to visit Rosa. 

Come with us on the last Saturday of April 

and enter the City Hospital by the West 

Avenue door. The group of children that 

are following us are from the Industrial 

School, and their Matron is with them. 

They remember and love Rosa, and have 

come to see her once more. Go up stairs 

with us and enter the Hospital Chapel and 

you will see why we have asked you to join 

us. The Chapel is very full but I think we 

can find a seat. In the center of it, clothed 

in pure white, with lilies of the valley in her 

hands, and wreathed'about with roses and 

smilax is a pale young sleeper. How beautiful 

she is! The casket holds only the precious 

remains of Rosa. She is not here. 

To-morrow is Easter, and Rosa would not 

change places with one of you, dear children, 

for she will spend it in Heaven. If you 

shed tears as you gaze at the peaceful, pla-


cid brow you must also rejoice, for the little 

sufferer has passed where pain and sickness 

never enter. Do you love Jesus ? Rosa 

loved him and has entered the fold of the 

Good Shepherd. Last year she publicly told 

her love by uniting with the Westminster 

Church. 

Now turn from Rosa to the groups who 

are gathered around her. The children 

nearest her are from the Industrial School. 

Behind them are the Hospital children, you 

know most of them, Max Kraus and Theodosia 

Banta have on their plaster of Paris 

jackets, but you can't see these, but you will 

know Max by the straps about his head ; 

the little boy who has thrown down his 

crutch is Freddy Lyons, and Tommy Heeney 

is close by ; the little girl from the 

Church Home and a new patient who has a 

lame knee are here. The woman with a cap 

is "Grossmutter," and "Grandmother W." is 

the other old lady. The young women with 

the pretty white Normandy caps are the 

nurses from the Training School, they are 

seated in the hall because the Chapel is so 

crowded. Those in the corner of the Chapel, 

clad in mourning, at the Minister's lefthand, 

are the family of Rosa, her father, 

mother, brothers and sisters. The minister 

who reads about Jairus' daughter is Rosa s 

pastor, Rev. Mr. Gardiner, and the German 

clergyman, Rev. A. Richter, is the pastor of 

her family. Many of those who are weeping 

are the Hospital patients, who loved the 

dear gentle Rosa, who was ever ready to do 

some act of kindness for them. The flowers 

that Rosa holds in her hands were brought 

this morning by St. Luke's Flower Mission, 

and the beautiful pure roses, fitting symbol 

for the lovely Rosa, were given by Misses 

Cole and Corby of the Training School for 

Nurses. Two weeks and a half before her 

death Rosa complained of headache, which 

increased in severity and terminated in cerebellar 

menengitis, of which she died, April 

23, 1886, aged fifteen years. 

Rosa had looked forward with a great 


deal of pleasure to a home in the new Children's 

Pavilion. What Memorial shall we 

place there of Rosa Uehlin ? 

The Pavilion Fund. 

Much interest has been manifested in the 

furnishing of cots for the new Children's 

Pavilion. We think there are now as many 

beds provided as we at present need, and 

we thank our kind friends for the readiness 

with which they have responded to our 

wants. Our Pavilion Fund has not increased 

much the past month. One dear little 

girl sends us from St. Paul, Minn., with her 

Easter offering for the fund the following 

note : 

DEAR AUNT LIBBIE:—I send as an Easter 

offering four bricks for the Children's 

Pavilion. Mamma and I send love to you 

and your mamma. NELLIE BEARDSLEE. 

We hope now that the beds are provided 

the children will work vigorously to pay off 

the debt that is resting on the Pavilion, for 

we shall not feel the building is really ours 

till it is paid for. Mrs. Mathews' report 

gives the amount needed. 

We wish that on Children's Sunday an 

offering could be made in all the Churches 

for the Pavilion Fund. Sabbath School 

collections would also help us. 


To MAY 1st, 1886. 

Perry A. Bly $2 00 

Nellie Beardslee, St. Paul, Minn., Easter 

offering—four bricks 1 00 

Bettie Boorman, four bricks 1 00 

Receipts for the month $4 00 

Previously acknowledged $2,202 34 



last payment on the Children's Pavilion, and 


Contributions to this Fund are urgently solicited, 


Mathews, 96 Spring Street, the Treasurer. 

•»» 

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APRIL, 1886. 

Mrs. Dr. Milne. Geneseo, by Mrs. L. 

Dickinson $ 50 

Miss Ellen Breck, 1>y Mrs. Dr. Strong. 62 

Mrs. R. B. Claxton, Philadelphia, by 

Mrs. W. H. Perkins 1 00 

Mrs. J. D. F. Richards, for Mrs. C. B. 

Smith, New York, by Mrs. S. H. Terry.. 1 00 

E. S. Ettenheimer & Co., adv., $5 ; 

Howe & Rogers, adv., $5; A. W. Mudge, 

adv., |5; S. Sloan, adv., $5; C. B. Woodworth 

& Sons, adv., $5, by Mrs. M. M. 

Mathews '. 25 00 

Mrs. E. R. Andrews, 62 cents; Mrs. P. 

Barry, 62 cents ; Mrs. N. L. Button, 62 

cents; Mrs. C. P. Boswell, 62 cents; Mrs. 

H. W Brown, 62 cents; Mrs. J. P. 

Cleary, 62 cents; Mrs. Fred Cook, 62 

cents: Miss Dunlap, 62 cents; Mrs. C. E. 

Furman, 62 cents; Mrs. J. H. Fisher, 62 

cents; Mrs. W. H. Gorsline, $1; Mrs. H. 

B. Hathaway, 62 cents; Mrs. R. F. Hopwood, 

62 cents; Mrs. E. Harris, 62 cents; 

Mrs. G. E. Jennings, 62 cents; Mrs. J. H. 

Kent, 62 cents; Mrs. B. R. Lawrance, 62 

cents; Mrs. G. McAllaster, 62 cents; Mrs. 

W. D. McGuire, 62 cents; Mrs. W. J. 

Mandeville, 63 cents; Miss S. Newell, 62 

cents; Mrs. E. W. Osburn, 62 cents; Mrs. 

D. W Powers, 62 cents: Mrs. J. Rapalje, 

62 cents; Mrs. H. T. Rogers, 62 cents; 

Mrs. W. C. Rowley, 62 cents; Mrs. J. 

Sproat, 62 cents; Mrs. J. L. Sage, 62 

cents ; Mrs. R. A. Sibley, 62 cents; Mrs. 

J. G. Stoothoff, 62 cents; Mrs. G. H. 

Thompson, 62 cents; Mrs. W. S. Whittlesey, 

62 cents ; Mrs. J. E. Wolcott, 62 

cents ; Mrs. G. D. Williams, 62 cents; 

Mrs. S. Wilder, 62 cents; Mrs. E. K. 

Warren, 62 cents, by Miss Hattie Smith.. 22 70 

Mrs. J. W. Archer, 62 cents; Mrs. Dr. 

Bly, 62 cents; Mrs. S, L. Brewster, 62 

cents; Mrs. Geo. Cummings, 62 cents; 

Mrs. C. T. Converse, 62 cents; Mrs. T. B. 

Collins, 62 cents; Mrs. W. B. Douglas, 62 

cents; Mrs. N. Dann, East Avon. $1; 

Mrs. C. E. Finkle, $1.25; Miss F. Hooker, 

Skaneateles, 50 cents; Mrs. D. T. Hunt, \ 

62 cents; Henry Herman, 62 cents; Mrs. 

J. C. Jones, Pawlet, Vermont, $1.50; 

Mrs. P. W. Jennings, 62 cents; Mrs. L. 

Marcus, Buffalo, 50 cents; Mrs. J. 

McDonald, 62 cents; Mrs. A. S. Mann, 

61 cents; Mrs. S. A. Newman. 62 centB ; 

Mr. G. Palmer, East Avon, 4 subs., $2; 

Mrs. W. H. Ross Lewin, 62 cents; Mrs. 

S. Van Auken, Oswego, 50 cents; Mrs. 

Warham Whitney, 62 cents, by Treasurer 16 54 

Miss Bettie Boorman, 62 cents ; Mrs. 

W. R. Humphrey, Ithaca, 50 cents; Mrs. 

P. H. Rew, 65 cents; Mrs. Leo Stein, 6a 

cents, by, Mrs. Converse 2 39 

Sale of papers 50 



Ued. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, April 8th, 

1886, of Casanoma of Breast, Jane Peet, aged 

77 years. 

At the Hospital, April 18th, of Phthisis Pulmonalis, 

Henry Steele, aged 44 years. 

At the Hospital, April 20th, from railroad 

accident, Frank N. Brown, aged 15 years. 

At the Hospital, April 23d, of Cerebellar Menengitis, 

Rosa Uehlin, aged 15 years. 

At the Hospital, April 25th, of Cerebral 

Apoplexy, George F. Pratt, aged 68 years. 

Donations for April, 1886. 

Miss Danforth, second hand clothing. 

Mrs. Corning, dutch cheese and grapes. 

Mrs. Arthur S. Hamilton, two suits of boys' 

clothing, and quantity of second hand clothing 

for two children. 

Mrs. G. W. Davis, reading matter. 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, 1 pair of sheets. 

Mrs. C. E. Converse, 2 pair of sheets, 2 white 

counterpanes, old cotton, 1 woolen long shawl, 

afghan for Children's Pavilion. 

E. Darrow & Co., 10 copies Harper's Weekly 

and Frank Leslie's Illustrated. 

Mrs. Henry Brewster, a large number of Harper's 

Weekly and Evangelists. 

Mrs. W. L. Halsey, magazines. 

Mrs. John S. Morgan, from St. Peter's church, 

Memorial Star. 

Mrs. C. H. Angel, second hand clothing, rug 

for Pavilion. 

Mrs. Seward Whittlesey, 3 night robes for 

children. 

Mrs. Webster, picture, "The Cherub Choir," 

for Pavilion. 

Mrs. Freeman Clarke, second hand clothing. 

Mr. James Brackett, old cotton. 

Mrs. G. B. Miller, magazines. 


Number in Hospital April 1, 1886 108 





" remaining May 1, 1886 104 169 

John VanKorff, a patient recently admitted, 

has been rendering himself very useful 

to us by painting different parts of the Hospital. 

At* the time of our visit he was engaged 

in oiling the floor of the upper Male 

Ward.



There are still two small rooms that need 

furnishing. Second hand furniture will be 

as acceptable as new. They are designed 

for ward patients who are too sick to remain 

in the wards. We also need a lounge, 

and chairs would be very acceptable. 

The Tear-kerchief. 

Dear to the wedded Tyrol maiden, 

Parting from home with fond good-byes, 

Is the white handkerchief, tear-laden, 

That dries her filial eyes. 

Her mother wrought the gift, and gave her 

For that rare hour, and thr'o the years 

That snowy woof of love shall never 

Be wet with other tears. 

First souvenir of farewell weeping, 

She lays it tenderly away, 

To hold thenceforth in holy keeping 

Thoughts of her marriage day. 

And, when her daughters are bespoken 

For bridal honors, for each one ' 

Her hands that weave the same white token 

Will not disturb her own. 

Thro' sorrows ending and beginning, 

• Till all her years of life are told, 

So long that sacred slip of linen 

She may no more unfold. 

Untouched while age and cares' corrosion 

Write wrinkles on her cheek and brow, 

It lies—sole relic of emotion 

From youth's first altar-vow. 

Till, when death comes at last, undreaded, 

Sad friends uncover from its place 

The broidered gossamer, and spread it 

Over her placid face, 

Where all the patience of affection, 

Made perfect, smiles in shrouded sleep, 

And peace with weeping recollection 

Seals eyes that cannot weep. 

•O love and death! Our first tear-shedding 

Turns dew of gladness, where between 

The earthly and the heavenly wedding 

Hope lingers ever green. 

Each life within its mortal measure 

Some grief embalmed in silence holds, 

Like the tear-kerchief with the treasure 

Its tender web enfolds. 

Nor dries one drop of holy feeling 

From eyelids wet when morning rose, 

Cut comes at night to touch with healing 

Those eyelids when they close. 

"For He to whose supreme compassion 

Each pain the suffering soul endears, 

iFor love's sweet hour of consolation 

Preserves His children's tears. 

Youth's Companion. THERON BROWN. 

Mendelssohn's Courtship. 

Meanwhile Mendelssohn married, and 

the story of his wooing, as first told by 

Berthold Auerbach, makes a pretty variation 

on the old theme. It was, in this case, no 

short idyll of "she was beautiful and he fell 

in love." To begin with, it was all prosaic 

enough. A certain Adam Gugenheim, a 

trader at Hamburg, caused it to be hinted 

to Mendelssohn that he had a virtuous 

and blue-eyed but portionless daughter, 

named Fromet, who had heard of the 

philosopher's fame, and had read portions of 

his books ; and who, mutual friends considered, 

would make him a careful and loving 

helpmate. So Mendelssohn, who was now 

thirty-two years old, and desirous to " settle," 

went to the merchant's house and saw 

the prim German maiden, and talked with 

her; and was pleased enough with her talk, 

or perhaps with the silent eloquence of the 

blue eyes, to go next day to the father, and 

to say he thought Fromet would suit him 

for a wife. But to his surprise Gugenheim 

hesitated, and stiffness and embarassment 

seemed to have taken the place of the yesterday's 

cordial greeting; still, it was no 

objection on his part, he managed at last to 

stammer out. For a minute Mendelssohn 

was hopelessly puzzled, but only for a minute 

; then it flashed upon him, " It is she 

who objects?" he exclaimed, " then it must 

be my hump!" and the poor father of course 

could only uncomfortably respond with 

apologetic platitudes about the unaccountability 

of girls' fancies. The humor as well 

as the pathos of the situation touched Mendelssohn, 

for he had no vanity to be piqued, 

and he instantly resolved to do his best to 

win this Senta-like maiden, who, less fortunate 

than the Dutch heroine had had her 

pretty dreams of a hero dispelled, instead 

of accentuated by actual vision. Might he 

see her once again, he asked, to say farewell? 

"Certainly," answered the father, glad that 

his awkward mission was ending so amicably. 

So Mendelssohn went again, and 

found Fromet with the blue eyes bent 

steadily over her work ; perhaps to hide a 

tear as much as to prevent a glance, for 

Fromet, as the sequel shows, was a tender 

hearted maiden, and although she did not 

like to look at her deformed suitor she did 

not want to wound him. Then Mendelssohn 

began to talk, beautiful, glowing talk, 

and the spell which his writings had exercised 

began again to work on the girl. From



philosophy to love in its impersonal form is 

an easy transition. She grew interested and 

self forgetful. "And do you think that marriages 

are made in Heaven ?" she eagerly 

questioned, as some early quaint superstition 

on this most attractive of themes • was 

vividly touched upon by her visitor. "Surely," 

he replied, " and some old beliefs on 

this head assert that all sffch contracts are 

settled in childhood. Strange to say, a 

special legend attaches itself to my fortune 

in this matter; and as our talk has led to 

this subject perhaps I may venture to tell 

it to you. The twin spirit which fate 

allotted to me, I am told, was fair, blue 

eyes, and richly endowed with all spiritual 

charms, but alas! ill luck had added to her 

physical gifts a hump. A chorus of lamentation 

arose from the angels who minister in 

these matters. The * pity of it' was so 

evident. The burden of such a deformity 

might well outweigh all the other gifts of 

her beautiful youth, might rendei her 

morose, self conscious, unhappy. " If the 

load now had been but laid on a man! And 

the angels pondered, wondering, waiting to 

see if any would volunteer to take the 

maiden's burden from her. And I sprang 

up, and prayed that it might be laid upon 

my shoulders. And it was settled so." 

There was a minute's pause, and then, so 

the story goes, the work was passionately 

thrown down, and the tender blue eyes were 

streaming, and the r^st we may imagine. 

The simple loving heart was won, and Fromet 

became his wife.—Macmillaris Magazine. 

Xo Light in the Window. 

A train sped along in the night, with 

drowsy passengers outstretched upon 

the seats. The conductor was observed 

peering frequently out of the windows 

into the frosty darkness. The night 

was black, and nothing could be seen 

but a sheen of snow over the shadowy 

landscape, and yet the conductor shaded 

his eyes with his two hands, and held 

his face—a weary looking face it was— 

close to the window-pane. 

"Looking to see if your girl is up 

yet?" jokingly inquired a passenger, 

with a coarse laugh. 

The conductor looked around, and 

with a husky voice he replied, simply,— 

"Yes." 

And then the bantering passenger 

became garrulous and familiar. 

"Ah, I see. Going to get married and 

quit the road. Going to marry a farmer's 

daughter. Is she worth much?" 

"She's worth a million to me," and 

the conductor deigned no more replies. 

The whistle of the locomotive was heard, 

and he pressed his eyes still closer to 

the window, seeming to fasten his gaze 

upon some object in the darkness. Then 

he rose up to leave the car, but staggered 

and was obliged to take hold of the 

backs of the seats to support himself. 

The passengers gathered round to 

inquire the nature of the trouble, when 

the brakeman came in and led him into 

the baggage-car. The conductor's face 

was as white as the snowbanks which 

fringed the iron roadway. 

"Poor Sam !" said the brakeman, upon 

his return. "It's a bad night for him. 

Four weeks his little girl has been ill. 

Night after night he was at her bed, 

but then she got better, and he came 

back to his train. 

"He arranged with his wife that if 

all was well with the little one, she'd 

display a lighted lamp right in the window 

of the sick room. The boys all 

knew of it, and every night we looked 

for the light almost as eagerly as Sam 

himself. He lives by the side of the 

track back here a few miles—and tonight 

there was no light in the window 

for Sam."—Chicago Herald Train Talk. 

Ice in the Sick Boom. 

A correspondent of the National 

Druggist thus writes: The writer's 

son suffered with typhoid fever during 

the heated term of last summer, when 

the temperature of the room often rose 

to 90 0 or 95 0 , and the patient's temperature 

ran up to 105 0 F. and over. A 

number of tubs were placed in the room 

and kept filled with ice, and the doors 

kept closed. The temperature of the 

room sank to 8o° or less, an average of 

12 0 or 15° below the temperatreu of the 

other rooms in the house, and the cooler 

atmosphere not only added to the



comfort of the patient, but, aided in 

lceeping down the body-temperature, 

arid materially contributed to final recovery. 

We would strongly urge the 

use of ice in the room as a measure of 

comfort and luxury for all who are confined 

to their beds during hot summer 

days, if they can afford the expense, 

~which if ice for cooling purposes is 

taken, is very moderate—the cost last 

summer being only fifteen cents a ioo 

pounds, and the average consumption 

somewhat less than iooo pounds a day. 

One of our Lady Managers conferred a 

great favor on the invalids by giving the 

use of her carriage to them for two hours. 

This was a rare treat to those confined most 

of the time to the Hospital Wards. 

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AT THE 

WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME.' 

HOSPITAL. 

VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 15, 1886. No. 11 

Last Easter-Tide. 

BY SUSAN TEALL PERRY. 

" It's an omen for good," spoke one friendly 

neighbor, 

As crossing the threshold he came to my side: 

" The robin is building her nest in the archway 

Just over your door, and so near Easter-tide!" 

"An omen for good for the whole year," he 

told me: 

So I bade all be cautious passing tho door, 

Lest robin be frightened, the nest she was 

making 

Be left in the archway, and finished no more. 

She built her soft, warm nest—the dear little 

mother! 

For the wee ones to come she waited her 

time. 

I watched as she fed and then brooded her 

children, 

So much as I'd tended and comforted mine. 

The year has gone by, and the nest is now 

empty; 

It's Easter again, but ere Winter had sped, 

Right over the threshold and under the archway 

The bearers stept softly who bore out my 

dead! 

" 'An omen for good'! O how false spoke my 

neighbor!" 

I said as I sat in the darkness and gloom, 

And thought of the households unbroken and 

happy, 

With the sunshine of Easter filling the room. 

The Lord saw my sorrow: He came in His pity, 

And lifted my soul from the darkness of 

night, 

And He told of the joy and peace of the loved 

one 

Who had risen with Him to glory and light. 

O what must it be to have risen forever 

Above all these fetters that bind us below ! 

Yes, little robin, if you came with an omen, 

'Twas one that was good for the dear child, 

I know.



The Old, Old Story. 

By Rev. Frederick G. Clark, D. D. 

It was not told by a minister, not 

even in the Sunday-school, but in the 

home of a devoted teacher to a congregation 

of one. This is the way the 

story was told, and this is the way it 

went down into one human heart. 

A poor ragged boy was found one 

Sunday by the teacher among the regular 

scholars of her claas. The lady 

had no idea how the thing happened. 

But there the boy was in his pitiful 

plight, and the other boys were having 

a little fun over the awkwardness and 

poverty of the stranger. The teacher 

drew the boy close to her side and 

asked his name. Hanging his head he 

muttered " My name is Jimmy." 

" How old are you ?" was asked 

with other questions, which drew out 

the fact that the boy was ten years 

old, and that he could not read. The 

case was so pitiful that the teacher 

only whispered, "I want you to go 

home with me after school." 

At length the teacher was seated in 

the house with the strange boy, to 

whom she gave an apple to make him 

feel at home, when the conversation 

went on something like this : 

" Jimmy, is your mother living ? " 

" I never had any mother as I knowed 

of. I allers lived with Benjamin the 

bone-picker." 

" Well, Jimmy, I hope you love 

Jesus." 

" Jesus—who is He ? " 

" Why, Jimmy, you must have heard 

of Jesus—stop and think." 

With an honest and wondering look 

the boy replied, " Upon my word and 

honor I never heard tell on Him. I 

suppose He is some great and big gentleman 

what wouldn't speak to Jimmy." 

The teacher had never before met a 

person that had not heard of Jesus. At 

first a strange chill came over her, and 

next a thrill of joy at being permitted 

to tell the story of the Cross to another 

for the first time. A prayer was sent 

up—" Lord help me," and the lady went 

on talking of Jesus. The boy listened 

with a stare of bewilderment; his gaze 

was riveted more and more upon his 

teacher as he drew closer and closer to 

her until his elbow rested on her lap. 

Tears came, filling his eyes and running 

down his cheeks, when he said, "It 

seems awful strange; nobody ever told 

me before that Jesus died for me. Are 

you sure there is no mistake about it ? 

I allers thought I was of no account 

anyhow. Please tell me where they 

buried Him. I wish I could put some 

flowers on His grave." 

When the teacher could recover her 

self-control after the pathos of these 

words, she said, "Jimmy, I have not 

told you the best of all. The grave 

could not hold Jesus; " and she went 

on to tell the boy about the resurrection 

and ascension. Her listener was spellbound, 

as he heard still further of 

Christ's praying for Jimmy, and that He 

was just as near to him as the boy was 

to the teacher, and that Jesus had a 

home for him in heaven by-and-by. 

The story had now penetrated 

Jimmy s heart, and he said, " I don't 

see how anybody could help loving One 

that died for 'em ; but how can I tell 

what He wants me to do ? I can't see 

Him, nor hear Him talk. I wish I had 

seen Him before He died." 

The teacher went on to tell about 

the Bible, about the strength Christ 

gives to them who try to obey Him, 

and how near we can all be to Him 

now that he is risen from the dead. 

Jimmy said inquiringly, "You told 

me that Jesus would come and live in 

my heart, but I know He wont stay 

where there is so much badness. Only 

yesterday I tried to steal some apples, 

and when I feel awful hungry, I just 

think I could steal anything. How can 

I get this awful feelin' out of me, so as 

to be good ? " to which the teacher replied 

by telling more of the love of 

Christ and. His cleansing blood. 

" Now please, teacher," said the boy, 

" wont you tell Mr. Jesus who I am ? 

I don t know how to ask Him, as long; 

as I can't see Him. Mebbe I wont ask


Him mannerly-like, and He wont 

answer me." 

The teacher replied that praying is 

talking to Jesus. " You can tell Him 

just what you want, and ask Him for it." 

" Well," replied Jimmy, " I think I 

would like to have you tell Him about 

me first, for you have known Him so 

long, and He will take more notice of 

Jimmy if somebody comes with him." 

They knelt in prayer, the teacher introducing 

Jimmy to Jesus, as the boy 

expressed it. Then in honest and rude 

faith Jimmy said, " I feel so well 

acquainted with Him now.vyou bet it 

wont be the last time I'll talk to Him." 

The boy took up his old torn cap as 

if hurrying away, when the teacher 

said, " What is your hurry, Jimmy?" 

In a subdued and confidential tone 

the boy replied, " I want to hurry home 

and tell Benjamin about Jesus ; he is 

so sickly-like, and it would be an awful 

thing if he should die and not hear 

about Jesus." Then half covering his 

mouth with his hand, he whispered, 

" And he told me to steal the apples, 

and that is why I am in such a hurry. 

Good-bye." 

This is a real incident. Such paganism 

may be found within pistol shot of 

our church spires. Here we see the 

charm of the old, old story, as fresh 

and powerful as ever. How many of 

us could tell the story so simply? What 

Christianity wants most to-day, is not a 

better philosophy, but lives so true and 

hearts so loving, that it shall not be so 

hard to get the story told.—N. Y. 

Evangelist. 

HOME ETIQUETTE. 

The Comfort, Beauty and Use of 

Politeness in the Family. 

Philadelphia Call. 

The ease and neglige of home often 

induce carelessness as to the etiquette, 

the impression being that politeness 

and polish are only needed in society, 

and that carelessness of manner is appropriate 

to home life. All such views 


are erroneous. There is positive comfort 

in politeness, and etiquette is as 

important at home as abroad. We distinguish 

etiquette as the outward expression 

of politeness. It has to do 

with forms and attentions, which are 

external. A lady in society is treated 

with a certain deference which manifests 

itself in delicate attentions. Children 

in society are treated with considerate 

kindness, which is always 

considerately expressed. There are 

rules of etiquette which relate to the 

many little attentions and formulas. 

These in society are carefully graded, 

and often rigidly enforced. They may 

be made onerous, and so oppressive. 

But etiquette is clearly defined. 

We do not advocate an etiquette for 

the home so rigid as to be burdensome. 

Yet it may be the means of teaching 

politeness to children. Those who have 

an instinctive politeness easily fall in 

with the rules of etiquette. But all 

have not this instinct. Some are careless, 

rude, selfish, inconsiderate. These 

need discipline. To give this is not to 

lecture on the rules of good order or 

politeness. It must be instilled more 

by example than precept. And where 

the parents are careful to observe the 

forms of politeness, its importance is 

naturally impressed and its rules are 

speedily learned. Therefore, all deference 

that would be shown in the public 

society should mark intercourse at 

home. And if husband and wife are 

courteous, children imbibe and practice 

it. Example is the great teacher in 

this line. 

Beyond this courtesy exerts a very" 

decided influence on character. Trained 

to the etiquette of politeness gives a 

balance and evenness to character. Its 

very inception involves self-control and 

conscious restraint. It is with most 

second nature. The forms and rules 

are acquired and the habits slowly 

grafted on. Where this is done so 

much has been accomplished in the line 

of self-control that its influence extends 

to temper and habits of mind. Such 

persons are apt to be self-contained in


all emergencies. A gentleman will be 

such under all provocations and amid 

all trials and tests. Hence children 

thus educated receive something more 

than polish. It is something to gracefully 

escort a lady to dinner, or to maintain 

an agreeable 1 conversation, or to 

show at all times the air of good breeding; 

but the value of it all is in the 

traits of mind that have been imparted. 

A clean person will feel clean, and one 

accustomed to politeness will naturally 

realize the elevation of feeling that attends 

courtesy. So habits 4 ' formed at 

home are important, and the habit of 

courtesy ranks among the first. 

Singular Diseases. 

Among the most singular diseases 

which have been developed in modern 

times is that of aphasia, in which the 

patient loses the memory of certain 

words, or rather the power to attach 

the proper word to an idea. 

A victim of this disease recently lost 

the ability to pronounce any word but 

" Yes," while his brain was as active 

and clear as before. He would read 

the morning paper, and proceed to 

make lively comments on the news to 

his family, all of which consisted of the 

single word " Yes," uttered with every 

variety of inflection. He, meanwhile, 

was totally unaware that he was not 

speaking with all his wonted fluency 

and force. A cure was effected in this 

case, and the mind of the patient was 

found to be clear and untouched by this 

strange ailment. 

Another remarkable disease is noted 

by an American specialist in cerebral 

affections, and also by a famous Spanish 

physician, Armanque Y Tuset. Miriatchit 

is a disease which originated 

among the prisoners of Eastern Siberia. 

The patient is irresistably impelled 

to imitate the words spoken by his 

companion; he can, in fact, make no 

other sounds than those which he hears. 

This disease is chronic and contagious, 

and is accompanied by fever, great dilation 

of the pupils of the eyes, and in- 


cessant laughter, and leaves the patient 

exhausted; the events of the time in 

which he has been affected being an 

utter blank to him. After the attack is 

past, the patient recovers his full 

strength of mind, and loses the inclination 

to imitate like a mocking-bird. 

Now, the story of these strange diseases 

oppresses us like a nightmarehorror. 

But is there no more commonplace 

mental ailment which has in it 

even deeper loss and tragedy? A young 

man, for example, gives himself up to 

money-making, or a young girl to the 

pursuit of fashion, for years, with the 

result that they forget, not spoken 

words, like the victim of aphasia, but 

ideas, principles and feelings. 

The soul, dwarfed and shrunken, 

knows nothing of the wide, noble life 

once possible to it, but goes about like 

an imbecile, crying out, "Dress! dress!" 

or " Money ! money !" 

Or, the lad or girl, just setting out in 

life, afraid to act from the law of common 

sense and conscience within, becomes 

a silly imitator of others, and 

receives from some one whom he or she 

regards as a social power, ideas of duty, 

or manners, even of religion. These 

weak creatures do not, like the Siberian 

miriatsha, echo the words only of their 

companions, but their thoughts and 

actions, and so become, in brain and 

soul, base copies of poor originals. 

When these singular neural diseases 

are cured, the brain, we are told, is unimpaired. 

But for the commaner ailments 

we have described, there is no 

cure. They attack the soul itself,—the 

seat of life. Their work is not for this 

world only, but for eternity. 

Among the passengers on the St.Louis 

Express a few days since was a woman 

very much overdressed, accompanied 

by a bright looking nurse girl and a self 

willed, tyrannical boy of about three 

years. 

The boy aroused the indignation of 

the passengers by his continued shrieks 

and kicks and screams, and his viciousness 

toward the patient nurse. He tore


her bonnet, scratched her hands, and 

finally spat in her face without a word 

of remonstrance from the mother. 

Whenever the nurse manifested any 

firmness, the mother would chide her 

sharply, and say,— 

"Let him have it, Mary. Let him 

alone." 

Finally the mother composed herself 

for a nap, and about the time the boy 

had slapped the nurse for the fiftieth 

time, a wasp came sailing in and flew 

on the window of the nurse's seat. The 

boy at once tried to catch it. 

The nurse caught his hand, and said, 

coaxingly,— 

"Harry musn't touch ! Bug will bite 

Harry!" 

Harry screamed savagely, and began 

to kick and pound the nurse. 

The mother, without opening her 

eyes or lifting her head, cried out, 

sharply,— 

"Why will you tease that child so, 

Mary ? Let him have what he wants at 

once." 

"But, ma'am, it's a"— 

"Let him have it, I say." 

Thus encouraged, Harry clutched at 

the wasp, and caught it. The yell that 

followed brought tears of joy to the 

passengers. 

The mother awoke again. 

"Mary!" she cried. #< Let him have 

it!" Mary turned in her seat, and said, 

confusedly,— 

"He's got it, ma'am?" 

Water-Pitchers, or Side-Saddle 

Flowers. 

As it is pretty generally known, all of 

the Water-pitchers are insect catchers. 

Every one who has eyes and knows how 

to use them has probably observed the 

.strange facination which purple colors 

have for insects. If we break off, close 

to the root, one of the funnel-shaped 

tubes of S. flava, on inverting it there 

will flow out a putrid mass of the consistency 

of pea-soup, wherein dragonflies, 

ants and moths of various species 

do duty instead of peas. Though Sar- 


racenia be the name the odor from the 

tube remiuds us of anything but the 

spices of Arabia felix. An examination 

of the tube discloses the appliances by 

which the plant so successfully captures 

its prey. From the curved rim of the 

wide-mouthed funnel broad streaks of 

Tyrian purple extend downward toward 

the bottom of the tube. These streaks 

or veins are polished as smooth as glass, 

and make very slippery pathways even 

for insects. From the upper portion 

of the interior surface of the tube exudes 

a sweetish substance akin to the 

nectar of flowers. This is the bait that 

attracts the insects, and the foolish 

creatures seem utterly unable to resist 

the seductions of the painted and slippery 

paths referred to, and following 

the purple streaks downward they are 

not long discovering a great change in 

the character of the nectar, for while 

that above is wholly innocuous, below 

it has intoxicating properties, as many 

botanists think, or, as seems to me the 

case, it becomes more sticky, and geting 

into the minute orifices by which 

the insect breathes, suffocates him. No 

sooner does the silly fly discover this 

unlooked for change than he tries to 

retrace his way, but, though the ingress 

was easy enough, the egress is, ah ! how 

difficult. Stupified, or asphyxiated, by 

the treacherous nectar, he is unable to 

maintain his foothold upon the polished 

surface, and down he tumbles into the 

pot below. 

Thus the complicated arrangements 

of tubular leaves, purple streaks, innocuous 

nectar above and poisonous nectar 

below, together with water secreted by 

the roots for dissolving the bodies of 

captured flies, are exceedingly favorable 

to the destruction of insect life. 

Any one who effects to doubt the matter 

can easily examine it for himself.— 

Gerald McCarthy, in Vick's Magazine 

for June. 

* m 

A standing antidote for poison by poison oak, 

ivy, etc., is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve 

in water, let it stand half an hour, then 

paint the poisoned parts with it. Three or four 

applications, it is said, will cure the most aggravated 

cases.




ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 15, 1886. 

Annual Examination of First-Year 

Pupils. 

Ever since the establishment of the 

Training School for Nurses connected 

with the Hospital, it has been the aim of 

those in charge to increase the efficiency of 

the School by the adoption of measures 

which would make the training more valuable 

to the pupils. Whereas formerly but 

a single examination known as the final examination 

was held by the staff each year, 

hereafter two examinations will he held 

yearly, one of pupils who have finished the 

two years course and are candidates for 

graduation, and the other of the pupils who 

have completed the first year of training. 

The range of studies now gone over in the 

two years course is so wide that it has been 

imposible to compass them all in a single 

examination. 

Accordingly, the first year pupils, known 

as the class of 1887, now in the School, will 

be examined by the staff of the Hospital on 

June 15th upon the following subjects : 

Care of sick room. 

Bed making. 

Bathing patients. 

Poultices. 

Enemata. 

Douches. 

Feeding patients. 

Moving patients. 

Stupes. 

General division of medicines. 

Pain, nausea and vomiting. 

Weights and measures. 

Application and dressing of blisters. 

Application of bandages. 

Keeping of records. 

Disinfection. 

General anatomy. 

Care of eye after operations. 

Care of wounds. 

Preparation of diet. 

Names of gynecological instruments. 

Tampons—Dossils. 

The result of this examination will determine 

the fitness of the pupils to go on with 

the second year of training. 

Special Lectures to the Pupils of the 

Training School. 

Dr. E. H. Howard, physician in charge 

of the Monroe County Insane Asylum, has 

kindly consented to give one or more lectures 

to the pupils of our Training School, 

on The Nursing of Cases Marked by Mental 

Derangement. 

The time of the lectures will be announced 

hereafter. 

The City Hospital. 

On the last day of May—Decoration Day 

—we visited the Hospital, and found everything 

in and around it neat and attractive. 

The green lawn and its inviting seats had 

tempted many of the invalids to leave the 

wards, and paint and whitewash had given 

the basement a fresh, clean appearance. 

Five immense clothes baskets, filled with 

sheets, pillow-cases and towels, indicated 

what had been done in the laundry, and a 

boiler holding a hundred gallons, for supplying 

the Hospital with warm water, was 

one of the new improvements that will add 

much to the comfort of the inmates. In 

the dining room of the Male Wards the 

patients were eating dinner. In the kitchen 

where the cooking was done for the wards, 

the cooks and assistants were just dishing 

up dinner, which consisted of roast pork 

and veal, baked beans and potatoes. In 

the next kitchen, where they were preparing 

food for the private patients and the general 

family table, there were also roast pork, 

veal, beans, potatoes and Indian meal pudding, 

and the trays, each with its card, were 

waiting to receive something for the private 

patients, and everything looked neat and


inviting. In the diet kitchen two nurses 

had been preparing chickens, custards, beef 

juice, and chicken and mutton broth. We 

never saw cooking premises neater or better 

regulated than those at the Hospital, 

and the system and order that prevail 

add much to the credit ofthose who regulate 

the culinary department. 

In the nurses' dining room seats and 

places were arranged for twenty-two nurses. 

A coat of paint had improved the general 

appearance of the room. Housekeepers 

consider themselves ready for congratulations 

when their Spring house-cleaning is 

completed, and as a party of ladies inspected 

the Hospital, and found how thorough had 

been the work of scrubbing brush, soap and 

water, they felt great credit was due to our 

matron who has supervised this work. 

The Invalids. 

On our last monthly visit, in going our 

rounds we found less of extreme suffering 

than usual. No victims of recent severe 

accidents and no very feeble patients presented 

cases of special interest to the general 

visitor, though no one can pass through 

the wards or go among the sufferers without 

finding much to call forth sympathy. 

The bright sunshine, soft air and attractions 

connected with Decoration Day, had allured 

all who were able to leave the wards. 

Fourteen were receiving treatment in the 

Male Surgical Ward. Two were confined 

to their cots and two were suffering from 

wounds received in an elevator. The man 

who had a compound contused fracture of 

one foot, and a simple fracture of the other, 

was still in bed; the other man who had 

been injured in his hip by a fall from an elevator 

had had a relapse, but was convalescing. 

The patient who was burnt is slowly 

improving, goes out of doors and sits up several 

hours during the day. The man whose 

gangrenous foot was amputated is still in 

one of the small pavilions. There were ten 


inmates in the Male Medical Ward. One 

man had died from cancer in the throat. 

Two men were confined to their cots. One 

was quite helpless. The eczema patient 

was slightly intproved. Three of the invalids 

were out on the lawn. A man who 

had had hemorrhage of the lungs was improving, 

as was also an eye patient who was 

receiving treatment from Dr. Rider. One 

patient was convalescing from the effects 

of poison taken before he came to the 

Hospital. 

There were eighteen under treatment in 

the Female Medical Ward, five of whom were 

confined to their beds. No death had occurred 

during the month. Some patients 

were suffering from diseased hearts, some 

from rheumatism, one from chronic sore 

throat. In one department of this Ward new 

curtains had been placed on the bedsteads. 

These snowy white curtains give a clean, 

neat appearance to the* cots, and when 

drawn together give privacy to the occupant. 

Minnie Bryant, who has been a long 

time with us, afflicted with rheumatism and 

diseased heart, was very feeble, suffering 

acutely from pain in the region of the heart 

and from difficulty in breathing. One woman 

was troubled with nervous prostration 

and another German patient was a new 

comer. One chronic patient had swollen 

limbs that discharged a good deal. 

There were twelve patients in the Lower 

Female Surgical Ward. The one who 

some'time since broke her hip had been 

sitting up. She goes about on crutches 

and gets out of doors every day and sits up 

three or four hours. 


The Children's Pavilion is at last occupied, 

and if the little folks had gone with 

us when we visited it, they would have seen 

on the piazza, swinging in a comfortable 

hammock, little Sarah, the colored child 

from the Orphan Asylum. She you know 

has a curvature of the spine, but she looked



very happy and had a little black doll in 

her arms, and while we were talking to her, 

Mrs. Robert Mathews gave her the beautiful 

French doll Daisy, sent by the " Busy 

Bees " of Perry, to the sickest child in the 

Pavilion. You must read in our paper 

what the little folks from Perry have done 

for our Pavilion children. 

In the Girls' Ward we have Theodicia 

Banta, who also has a curvature of the 

spine, and who came from the Industrial 

School, and Clara Shaw from the Church 

Home, who had St. Vitus' dance, but is 

now almost well. Ida Rivers who has had 

granulated eyelids, but is now better, is occupying 

the " Paul" room where the curtains 

are partly drawn to soften the light, 

as her eyes are weak. 

Our Pavilion boys are Max Kraus, who 

still wears the plaster of Paris jacket and 

the head harness, and Tommy Heeney,who 

was born in the Asylum and has an abcess, 

and Freddy Lyons who has abscesses and 

is lame. 

In the Nursery were two pretty girl babies. 

Mrs. C. H. Angel has decided to 

name her cot the "Three Little Maids' 

Cot," and over it she has a picture of "three 

little girls from school," dressed in Mikado 

costumes, and as we were looking at the 

cot and picture, a Mikado bed spread, sent 

by the " Busy Bees " of Perry, was thrown 

over the cot. 

The bed given by Mrs. James Laney, 

as an Easter offering, is named in memory 

of her children, "the Jamie and 

Cora Laney bed." Mrs. James Laney has 

also given a child's invalid chair, and, in 

memory of her husband, a large leathercovered 

wheel chair for the Male Ward 

of the Hospital. Two little tables have 

been placed in the Wards as dining 

tables for the children. Mrs. Roberts has 

given a cup and a picture that will please 

the children. A little baby is talking to a 

dog and saying: " Can't you talk? " A sly 

kitty is peeping at them. 

Two children who .had scarlet fever in 

one of the small, separate pavilions have 

recovered and gone home. The pavilion 

has been fumigated and is to be painted. 

Diphtheria and scarlet fever patients, or 

those suffering from contagious diseases, 

are not taken into the Hospital or Children's 

Pavilion.. 

We have had one death and a sad one, 

the result of a railroad accident, in our 

Children's Pavilion. On the 19th of May 

Andrew Conners, 9 years old, was brought 

to the Hospital in such a condition that his. 

arm had to be amputated, but it did not 

save him; he died on the 21st. He said he 

had been to see his grandmother and wasreturning 

home and while crossing the 

track was fearfully injured by the cars. 

The first occupant of the "Julia and Edith 

Room," Rosa Uehlin, the little girl who 

died in April, was long an inmate of the 

Hospital. When she first begun to be sick 

she had a headache, and one day when she 

wanted to be quiet, she threw herself on the 

bed in that room, the nurse covered her 

over and she had a sweet nap. A little 

child who has for years been a great sufferer, 

was brought to the Hospital as her 

friends had been long caring for her, but 

all night long the nurse held her in her 

arms an'd could not pacify her. She cried 

incessantly, and the mother in the morning 

took her home. The poor little thing has 

been for years an invalid. 

BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.—A corres^ 

pondent of the Scientific American says: 

" The best remedy for bleeding at the 

nose, as given by Gleason in one of his 

lectures, is a vigorous motion of the 

jaws, as if in the act of mastication. In 

the case of a child a wad of paper should 

be placed in its mouth, and the child 

instructed to chew it hard. It is the 

motion of the jaws that stops the flow 

of blood. This remedy is so very simple 

that many will feel inclined to laugh 

at it ; but it has never been known to 

fail—not even in very severe cases.


Additional Annual Subscriptions. 

By Mrs. D. Andrews: 

R. A. Sibley $5 00 

A. M. Lindsay 5 00 

Robert Liddle 5 00 

Chas. J. Burke 5 00 

A. B. Hone 5 00 

Chas. FitzSimons 5 00 

Geo. Weldon 5 00 

C. H. Carroll 5 00 

J. H. Hone 5 00 

A. S. Mann 5 00 

I. Schleyer Sons 5 00 

B. Herman 5 00 

A friend : . 50 

Mrs. Alfred Bell 5 00 

Mrs. F. A. Macomber 5 00 

Mrs. T. A. O'Hare 5 00 

Mrs. D. Cory 2 00 

Mrs. A. B Lamberton 5 00 

Mrs. F. Cook 5 00 

Mrs. G. H. Perkins 5 00 

Mrs. J. W. Whitbeck 5 00 

' Mrs. Freeman Clarke 5 00 

Mrs. William Webb 5 00 

Mrs. S. H. Hill 5 00 

Mr. A. J. Kirley 5 00 

Messrs. Bush & Bull 5 00 

Mr. S. C. Paine 5 00 

Mr. Geo. W. Ross-Lewin 5 00 

Messrs. Oaks & Stern 5 00 

Cash 5 00 

Curran & Goler 5 00 

Mrs. H. Sibley 5 00 

Mrs. I. S. Averell 5 00 

Mrs. Carter Wilder 5 00 

Mrs. Erickson Perkins 5 00 

A friend 50 

Mrs. L. Ward Clark 5 00 

Cash 2 00 

Mrs.H. M. Ellsworth 5 00 

Friend 100 

Mr. H. C. Wisner 5 00 

Mr. James Vick 2 00 

Mrs. Wm. S. Little : 5 00 

Cash 1 00 

Mrs. M. M. Perkins 2 00 

Mrs. H. R. Selden 5 00 

Cash 2 00 

Cash 1 00 

Cash 2 00 

By Mrs. M. M. Mathews: 

1 For the City Hospital" 1 00 

By Mrs. John Brewster: 

Mrs. Chas. Smith 5 00 

Mrs. Wm. Mudgett 5 00 

Miss Potter 5 00 

Mrs. A. J. Johnson 5 00 

By Mrs. H. F. Smith : 

Chas. S. Hastings 5 00 

Samuel Sloan 5 00 

C. M. Everest 5 00 

Geo. B. Watkins 5 00 

Mrs. P. V Crittenden 5 00 

Mrs. Eugene Curtiss 5 00 

By Mrs. Louis Chapin : 

Dr. Mallory 5 00 

Mrs. Josiah Anstice 5 00 


By Miss Mumford : 

Mrs. Myron Adams 5 00 

Mrs. D. H. Little "5 00 

Miss Alice Whittlesey 5 00 

Miss Mumford 5 00 


For the HOSPITAL REVIEW. 


Virginia Jeffrey Smith, for two bricks. .$ .50 

" Busy Bees," Perry, N. Y 10.00- 

Infant class, Presb. church, Perry, N. Y. 1.00- 

Birthday box in Miss Hebbard's school, 

Lockport. N. Y 1.00- 

Blanche Howard's second offering for 

bricks .75- 

Mrs. Mary S. Porter's class in Plymouth 

Sunday School, second offering— 

Mabel Moser, Maida Finding, Minnie 

Peck, Alice McArthur, Irene Allen, 

Annie Campbell 1.50- 

Cash 25.00- 

Receipts for the month $39.75* 

Previously acknowledged $2,206.34 

Total receipts $2,246.09- 

We still require $4,253.91 to complete,the 

last payment on the Children's Pavilion, and 


Who will help us ? Contributions to this Fund 

are urgently solicited, and should be sent to 

Mrs. Robert Mathews, 96 Spring street, the 

Treasurer. 

•«» 

The following note explains itself : 

MY DEAR MRS. MATHEWS : 

Please accept the enclosed $1.50 as am 

additional contribution to the Pavilion fund,, 

by my Sunday School class at Plymouth. 

Church. Sincerely your friend, 

MARY S. PORTER. 

Saturday, June 5 th. 

The names of the scholars are the following 

: 

Mabel Moser, Maida Finding, Minnie 

Peck, Alice McArthur, Irene Allen, Annie 

Campbell. 

•«» 

New Towels. 

A donation of fifty new towels, all 

hemmed, was very acceptable. Sheet, pillow 

cases and towels are in great demand 

at the Hospital, and as they are constantly 

wearing out we are always thankful for 

them.



A Memory. 

F. J. A. 

In the midst of June sunshine and summer 

verdure, while the birds were carolling 

above her, and the flower-scented breezes 

wafting their incense around her, surrounded 

by loving friends, there was borne from 

the home long brightened by her presence, 

to her resting place in " God's Acre," one 

whose warm heart and busy hands have oft 

responded to a call from the Hospital, as 

at our annual donations she efficiently and 

untiringly labored for the success of the 

festival. 

Eminently practical in her nature, clear 

in her judgment, pronounced and conscientious 

in her religious character, and indefatigable 

in her zeal for the accomplishment 

of labors of love, she has left a void 

not easily filled in the home circle, the 

Sabbath School, the Mission School, the 

church and the Female Charitable Society. 

We would not, with irreverant touch, lift 

the veil that screens the sacred spot, where 

as daughter and sister her Christian faith 

bore precious fruit; but, in the church and 

Sabbath School, her zeal and efficiency 

were known and seen of all men, and her 

faithful labors in behalf of the poor and 

needy or afflicted children of the Infant 

Sabbath School, that she clothed, visited 

and instructed, will make the name of Fannie 

J. Ailing long remembered as a model 

Sabbath School teacher. May her mantle 

fall on a worthy successor. To one of her 

active temperament the trial of long protracted 

and painful illness was peculiarly 

trying, but the grace that made her an 

active laborer in the Master's vineyard, 

supported and strengthened her through 

the weary months of suffering. While we 

offer our sympathies to her bereaved family 

we rejoice that the memory of her useful 

life abides. A touching tribute to the de 

parted, from the children of her Infant and 

Mission Sabbath School classes, was the 

lining of her grave with snowballs and the 

covering of it with flowers. 

During her own sickness last spring, Miss 

Ailing planned and directed the arrangement 

of her own flower garden, designing 

to make from it weekly offerings to St. 

Luke's Flower Mission, for the inmates of 



MAY, 1886. 

Mrs. J. A. Stevens, by Mrs. L. L. R. 

Pitkin , $ .65 

J. T. Andrews, 62 cents; Mrs. F. C. 

Armstrong, 62 cents; Mrs. L. Adler, 62 

cents; Mrs. F. B. Bishop, 62 cents; W. 

H. Benjamin, 62 cents; Mrs. Dr. Bennett, 

62 cents; W. F. Balkam, 62 cents; 

Mrs. H. C. Brewster, 62 cents; Miss Danforth, 

$1.25; Mrs. W. K. Daggs, 62 cents; 

Mrs. P. Davis, 62 cents; F. L. Durand, 

62 cents; C. M. Everest, 62 cents; Mrs. 

P. Epstein, 62 cents; Mrs. C. E. Fitch, 62 

cents; Mrs. C. P. Ford, 62 cents; Mrs. J. 

Farley, $1.25; Mrs. M. R. Fairman, 62 

cents; Mrs. J. H. Frick, 62 cents; M. 

Filon, 62 cents; Mrs. R. H. Furman, 62 

cents ; M. Greentree, 62 cents; Miss 

Bessie Gilman, $1.25; Mrs. S. Hamilton, 

62 cents; D. C. Hyde, 62 cents; Miss A. 

A. Jennings, 62 cents; Mrs H. B. Knapp, 

62 cents; Mrs. J. H. Kalbfleisch, 62 cents; 

L. W, Kaufman, 62 cents; H. Lomb, 62 

cents; Mrs. W. P. Latz, 62 ceuts; Mrs. S. 

J. Macy, 62 cents; Mrs. H. H. Morse, 62 

cents ; J. McCabe, 62 cents ; Mrs. Dr. 

Mandeville, 62 cents; Mrs. O. W. Moore, 

62 cents; Miss E. Manvel, 62 cents; Mrs. 

H. S. Mackie, 62 cents; Mrs. J. Z. Newcomb, 

62 cents; Mrs. W. Oothout, 62 

cents; Mrs. N. P. Osborn, 62 cents; Miss 

Porter, 62 cents; Mrs. F. E. Peek, 62 

cents; Mrs. A. V. Pells, 62 cents; Dr. C. 

E. Rider, 62 cents; Mrs. Arthur Robinson, 

62 cents; Geo. W. Ross-Lewin, 62 

cents ; Mrs. B. Rothschilds, 62 cents ; 

Mrs. E. Strouss^ 62 cents; Mrs. S. Sloan, 

62 cents; Mrs. G. G. Street, 62 cents; 

Mrs. O. S. Stull, 62 cents: Mrs. D. Upton, 

62 cents. Mrs. James Upton, 62 cents; 

Mrs. J. H. White, 62 cents; Mrs. E. W. 

Williams, 62 cents; Mrs. E. F. Wilson, 

62 cents; Mrs. F. Wolff, 62 cents, by Miss 

Hattie Smith 87.85 

Mrs. Geo. Breck, New York, 50 cents; 

Mrs. S. M. Bentley, Holyoke, Mass., 50 

cents; Miss H. J. Paul, 15 cents, by 

Treasurer .. 1.15 



Copies of THE HOSPITAL REVIEW 

may be had of Mrs. Robert Mathews, 

96 Spring street.


CORRESPONDENCE. 

Kind Friends in Perry, N. Y. 

PERRY, May 18th, 1886. 

Mrs. Robert Mathews : 

DEAR MADAM—Enclosed you will draft 

for $10 to be used for the Childrens' Pavilion 

for bricks, from the Busy Bees, a socity 

of little girls who have been working 

very hard for different objects. They have 

sent to the Rochester Orphan Asylum a 

very nice box this last week, and $10 to a little 

girl in Sitka, Alaska, for whom they have 

been working for some time. You will also 

get by express a " Mikado " quilt and doll 

to be used for the sick ward. We have 

made the quilt as light as we could, so that 

it could be used for a spread. We thought 

it would amuse a sick child for some time ; 

the doll the children wish kept for the child 

that needs to be comforted the most just 

now, and when she is better, to be used for 

the next one that needs her, so that she can 

be kept for the " sickest child," as the children 

say, hoping in that way she may be 

the most comfort to the little ones afflicted. 

While writing, I have had one dollar handed 

to me to buy four bricks, from the Infant 

Class, Presbyterian Church, Mrs. M. S. 

Noble, teacher. I trust that the box will 

reach you safely and that I shall hear from 

you soon, I remain, Respectfully, 

MRS. G. R. TRAVER, 

Pres. "Busy Bees," Perry, Wyoming Co. 

•••—• 

Three books for the Pavilion library have 

been sent by Miss Hill, of Brooklyn, and a 

bound volume of " The Young Christian 

Soldier " has been sent by Mrs. E. J. Catlin, 

of Elizabeth, N. J. Two bricks come 

to us as an offering from Virginia Jeffrey 

Smith. We have received from the " Busy 

Bees," of Perry, the doll and the Mikado 

quilt which will be very acceptable to the 

inmates of the Pavilion. The doll is a 

lovely French one; a little beauty, with 

rosy cheeks, blue eyes and flaxen curls. 


It is dressed in blue with a muslin cap 

a and drab mantle on her aim. In a box 

is a night dress, another day dress, and a 

comb for the pretty curls. Tied to the hand 

is a card on which the following lines are 

written: 

"Daisy is my name, 

As nurse I have great fame. 

With some sick child, pray let me stay, 

I can watch at night, and play all day. 

But this I wish, dear little girl, 

That my golden hair may be kept in curl. 

With willing hands and willing feet, 

My mission I hope will be complete. 

I came from far across the seas, 

To join the swarm of ' Busy Bees;' 

They send me to you and believe 

' "Pis more blessed to give than to receive.'" 

The doll was given to little Sarah in the 

hammock. The Mikado quilt was a pretty 

calico, with palm leaves, fans, birds, butterflies 

and other insects, animals and wild 

flowers. It was thrown over the " Three 

Little Maids' Bed," that had the picture of 

the "Three Little Girls from School," in 

Mikado costume hanging over it. 

••• 

Donations for May. 

Mrs. George Taylor, reading matter and old 

cotton. 

Miss A. Mumford, second-hand clothing, 

papers, etc., for the children. 

Miss Hopkins, second-hand clothing. 

Mrs. L. 8. Chapin, oranges and papers. 

Mrs. J. H. Grant, infants' clothing. 

Mrs. B. K. Lawrance, a glass for whipping 

cream, egg poachers. 

Mrs. C. S. Wales, old cotton and reading 

matter. 

Mrs. H. C. Roberts, picture and drinking 

cup for Pavilion. 

Miss Wright, two silent comforters. 

Mrs. G. C. Buell, old cotton. 

George H. Clarke, picture for Pavilion. 

Willie Webb, flowers for the children. 

Mrs. C. J. Catlin, Elizabeth, N. J., one bound 

copy of Christian Soldier. 

Miss Anna Hill, Brooklyn, N. Y., three 

books for Pavilion. 

" Busy Bee Society," Perry, N. Y., beautiful 

French doll and clothes, also Mikado quilt. 

Mrs. Leo. Stein, fifty new towels. 


Number in Hospital May 1, 1886 104 





" remaining June 1, 1886 85 158



At the Rochester City Hospital, May 5,1886, 

of cerebral menengitis, Katie Bahls, aged 18 

years. 


of cancer of throat, Edward Bushier, aged 72 

years. 


of injury by cars, Andrew Connors, aged 9 

years. 

Persian Proverb. 

We have been requested by an " inmate 

of the Hospital" to publish the 

following: 

" There was once seen lying in the 

heat of the day upon a crowded street, 

the body of a dog.. Death had robbed 

him of all that was noble in life, so that 

in passing one and another would remark 

: Behold his matted hair!' 

His sunken eyes!' ' His bleeding 

side !' ' How he stinketh ! ' Until 

one drew near, and stooping, lifted the 

drooping head and saith : Behold his 

teeth; whiter are they than pearls !' 

And as He spake, the glory of God 

shone around Him, and the people beheld 

Christ, the Lord, standing in their 

midst." 

If our Lord can thus find pearls in 

the carcass of a dog, cannot He find 

good in thine heart, my brother? 

•»»» 

The Union Blues have put a nice new 

carpet on their room and fitted it up in 

good style. The Brick church has also 

re-furnished its room, and Mr. Seth J. 

Arnold has given a pretty new carpet for 

it. Minges & Shale have repaired a child's 

invalid chair. For all these favors we are 

very grateful. 

••• 

A school in Lockport, taught by Miss 

Hibbard, has become interested in the Pavilion 

and has put up a box, where the 

scholars on their birthdays can put in a 

birthday offering. As the fruit of this they 

have sent one dollar to pay for one square 

in the Pavilion chart. We hope their good 

example will be followed. 

At Set of Sun. 

If we sit down at set of sun, 

And count the things that we have done, 

And. counting, find 

One self-denying act, one word, 

That eased the heart of him who heard ; 

One glance, most kind, 

That fell like sunshine where it went— 

Then we may count the day well spent. 

Or, on the other hand, if we, 

In looking through the day, can see 

A place or spot 

Where we an unkind act put down, 

Or where we smiled when wont to frown, 

Or crushed some thought 

That cumbered the heart-ground where it 

stood— 

Then know the Lord counts that day good. 

But if, through all the life-long day, 

You eased no heart by yea or nay; 

If through it all 

You've done no thing 1 that you can trace, 

That brought the sunshine to a face; 

No act, most small, 

That helped some soul, and nothing cost,— 

Then count that day as worse than lost. 

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INTERESTS OF THE ÎCK AND SUFFERING 

AT THE 

ROOHESTEB CIT1T HOSPITAL. 

" I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME." 

VOL. XXII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 15, 1886. No. 12 

THE HOSPITAL REYIEW- 

This number closes the twenty-second volume 

of THE HOSPITAL REVIEW. 

It was first published August 15, 1864, when 

the care of the sick and wounded soldiers was 

a prominent feature of Hospital work. It then 

contained only eight pages, but in January, 

1865, it was enlarged. The regular issue is sixteen 

pages. 

It is now, as it ever has been, a channel of 

communication between the Hospital workers 

and the outside world. It seeks to impart to 

its readers a knowledge of our work, and thus 

to awaken and increase their interest in the 

Hospital, to enlist their sympathy and co-operation, 

to make known its wants, hopes and 

aims, and to return thanks for favors, services 

and donations. 

We present this month an enlarged number, 

and in place of our ordinary miscellaneous selections 

we give a. number of original articles, 

designed to.convey,'in a definite form, to our 

numerous friends, some information about our 

work and our wants. 

Many inquiries reach us about our Hospital, 

Nurse's Training School, and Children'n Pavilion, 

and we have, endeavored to answer 

these inquiries. 

We trust this may reach some who will take 

a new or fresh interest in the Hospital. 

THE REVIEW has a Miscellaneous Department, 

containing original and selected articles, 

and stories to' interest and benefit the young. 

It has also its advertising columns. 

The subscription price, including postage, is 

sixty-two cents a year to residents in the city, 

and fifty cents to .others. We are very anxious 

to obtain more subscribers. This number 

will be sent to some who are not accustomed 

to receive the REVIEW, hoping they may be induced 

to send their names and money to the 

Treasurer, 96 Spring Street, Rochester, N. Y.



Rochester City Hospital. 

The Rochester City Hospital—an incorporated 

institution, but not supported by the City, 

as its name might imply—was opened in 1864, 

and has accommodations for one hundred and 

seventy-five patients. It is situated on West 

Avenue and Troup street. Entrance for carriages 

is from Troup street. The grounds embrace 

three acres in an unsurpassed location, 

and are so spacious as to suggest rural quiet 

and enjoyment. The Hospital wards are large, 

light, well ventilated, heated by steam, and 

are designed for medical and surgical cases of , 

both sexes. 

Patients are here received on City or 

County orders or on the recommendation 

of any of the Attending Physicians and Surgeons 

or Lady Managers, or by direct application 

to the Recorder at the Hospital. The 

charge to patients in the large wards is four 

dollars a week ; in the private wards accommodating 

two or three patients each, six dollars 

a week; this includes board, medicines 

and nursing; also, medical attendance to 

those unable to pay for it. 

The Lying-in department offers special advantages 

for the care of patients before, during 

and after confinement. Cases of contagious disease 

are treated in isolated buildings. The entire 

upper floor of the Hospital is divided into 

22 private rooms, well furnished,where private 

patients are received and treated. These rooms 

are reached by an elevator, and combine all 

the advantages of a first-class hotel with the 

quiet, trained nursing and attention of a Hospital. 

The charge to patients in private 

rooms is from eight to sixteen dollars a week, 

which inclmdes board, medicines, (exclusive 

of stimulants), and ordinary nursing. An extra 

charge is made for a private nurse. Private 

patients choose their own physician, who 

may be of any school. 

Applications for private rooms should be 

made to Mrs. C. E. Converse, Recorder, at the 

Hospital. There are separate accommodations 

for sick and injured children in the Children's 

Pavilion. 

The sanitary condition of the buildings is 

deemed perfect, the drainage having recently 

been entirely reconstructed on the most approved 

principles. The Hospital is open to 

patients from any part of the country. It 

is under the direction of the following 

officers: 

OFFICERS OF ROCHESTER CITY HOSPITAL. 

Julyl, 1886. 

Directors. 

D. W. Powers, President. 

M. F. Reynolds, Vice-President. 

H. S. Hanford, Secretary and Treasurer. 

Samuel Wilder, ] 

A. S. Hamilton, j 

L. P. Ross, y Executive Committee. 

W. H. Gorsline, 

A. J. Johnson, J 

John H. Bre water, ) 

Chas. F. Pond, [ Auditing Committee. 

W. S. Kimball, ) 

S. J. Macy, ) 

G. H. Perkins. I Com. on Membership. 

John Greenwood, ) 

C. C. Morse, Geo. E. Mumford, 

Jas. Brackett, J. J. Bausch, 

J. L. Angle, Samuel Sloan, 

R. A. Sibley, S. J. Arnold, 

Rev. Max Landsberg, Alfred Wright. 

Lady Managers. 

Mrs. M. Strong, President. 

Mrs. Win. H. Perkins, Treasurer. 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews, Corresponding Sec'y. 

Mrs. D. B. Beach, Recording Secretary. 

Mrs. Maltby Strong, 

Mrs. W. H. Perkins, 

Mrs. M. M. Mathews, 

Mrs. A. D Smith, \ Executive Com. 

Mrs. J. H. Brewster, 

Mrs. H. H. Morse, 

Miss A. S. Mumford, 

Mrs. Freeman Clarke, Mrs. Clark Johnston, 

Mrs. Myron Adams, Mrs M. Landsberg, 

Mrs. Henry F. Smith, Miss A. E. M. Wild, 

Mrs. Louis S. Chapin, Mrs. A. S. Hamilton, 

Mrs. Wm. E. Hoyt, Mrs. J. Anstice, 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, Miss L. E. Whitney. 

Medical Staff. 

William S. Ely, M. D., E. V.Stoddard, M. D., 

Charles A. Dewey, M. D. 

Surgical Staff. 

H. H. Langworthy, M. D., David Little, M. D., 

John W. Whitbeck, M. D. 

C. E. Rider, M. D., 

Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon. 

Assistant Visiting Physician. 

M. L. Mallory, M. D. 

Assistant Visiting Surgeons. 

J. J. Kempe, M. D., H. T. Williams, M. D. 

Assistant Pathologist. 

W. J. Herriman, M. D. 

House Officers. 

W. A. Oliver, M. D., B. E. Manchester, M. D. 

Matron. 

Miss Frances E. Hebbard. 

Recorder. 

Mrs. C. E. Converse. 

Supervising Nurse. 

Miss L. A. Markham.



Private Booms. 

These are a special feature of the Hospital, 

and, in comfort and advantages offered, are 

not surpassed by any institution in the country. 

They are heated by steam, are well ventilated; 

and, having no pipes or plumbing connected 

with them, they are free from any possible exposure 

to sewer gas. 

Patients occupying private rooms may employ 

any physician whom they prefer, and it 

is intended that every facility shall be furnished 

to physicians of any school of medicine 

for the care of their patients in our private 

rooms. 

Rest, Massage and Electricity. 

Special advantages are offered in private 

rooms and wards for the treatment of cases of 

neurasthenia, or "nerve tire" and "wombills 

" by rest, massage and electricity. 

The combined treatment referred to was 

•first brought to notice in a systematic manner 

by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia. It is 

specially beneficial in cases of nervous exhaustion 

occurring in women. The pupils of the 

Training School are taught Massage and Swedish 

movements, and those who are most proficient 

are assigned to patients needing these 

modes of treatment. 

The Lying-in Department 

of the Hospital embraces a Ward and private 

rooms for the care of Lying-in women. Every 

opportunity is offered for quiet and seclusion 

in these cases. Wet-nurses may be obtained 

at times from the Lying-in Ward, for which a 

charge of one dollar is to be paid to the Hospital. 

Isolated Pavilions. 

There are two small pavilions on the Hospital 

grounds, for the use of patients whom it 

is not deemed advisable to treat in the Hospital 

building proper. Mr. Harvey Hall, once 

a patient in the Hospital, bequeathed to it $500. 

His relatives, Messrs. E. C. Hall and S. W. 

Dibble, of New York, contributed $150, and 

this money was appropriated to the building 

and furnishing of a pavilion known as the 

Hall Pavilion. The second pavilion was built 

with money contributed by members of the 

Medical Staff. 

Quiet, seclusion and adequate care and nursing 

in cases of operations, or where isolation 

is advisable, are perfectly combined in these 

pavilions. They are thoroughly fumigated, 

disinfected and ventilated, at the termination 

of each case treated in them. 

The Hospital Libraries. 

The Hospital is provided with a good library 

of general reading for the patients. Our citizens 

have made valuable contributions from 

their private libraries. Cheerful and entertaining 

books for the sick are always acceptable. 

Each volume when received is catalogued 

and numbered, and the name of the donor is 

affixed to it. 

We have also the nucleus of a Medical Library 

of special interest to the Medical and 

Surgical Staff, to which physicians are invited 

to contribute, and thus make it a valuable 

library. for study and reference, accessible to 

physicians in the city or country. 

The Children's Cot. 

The raising of a fund to endow a cot in the 

Hospital, to be called "The Children's Cot," 

which should provide perpetually, for the care 

of a sick child, was begun February, 1877, and 

completed December, 1883. Its purpose was to 

awaken an interest in young persons and 

children, in the work of the Hospital, and 

from this beginning has grown the Children's 

Pavilion. 

The Cot stands in the Boys' Ward, and a 

suitable tablet is soon to be placed on the wall 

over it, by the same generous donor, who gave 

the little bed and its belongings, which since 

1877, has been occupied, and known as, "The 

Children's Cot. 

We would urge upon those who contributed 

towards this endowment, the need of continued 

assistance, to enable us to pay the debt on 

the Pavilion Building, and support the afflicted 

little ones under our care. 


The Children's Pavilion is the daughter of 

the Children's Cot. Though the child has outgrown 

her mother she would not forget'her 

feeble birth. 

For many years, those familiar with Hospital 

work have f olt the great importance of



separating the sick or injured children from 

the adult patients, but as there was no space in 

the City Hospital that could be devoted exclusively 

to the little folks, they were received 

into the public wards, where their physical 

needs were attended to, sometimes at the expense 

of their moral culture. 

At the Donation Festival, December 6, 1883, 

sufficient funds were raised to complete the 

$3,000 endowment of the Children's Cot, and 

at once three of the Lady Managers each gave 

a sum of money for " bricks for the Childrerfe 

Pavilion" and thus started a Pavilion 

Fund. Other friends imitated their example, 

and $41.93, a surplus over the $3,000 raised for 

the Children's Cot, was transferred to the 

Children's Pavilion Fund, and at the close 

of December, 1883, there were $49.43 in the 

treasury. 

The little folks who had worked so vigorously 

for the Cot Fund entered into the spirit 

of the enterprise and labored effectively for the 

Pavilion, and' by brick^ money, Easter, memorial, 

and Thanksgiving offerings, by fairs, exhibitions, 

contributions from clubs, fancy tables, 

and special efforts on donation days, the fund 

has steadily increased. A large proportion of 

the money raised has come from children. 

On Donation Day, 1884, the fund amounted 

to $739.80, and the next year, December 11, 

1885, it was $1,666.71, and now it has amounted 

to $2,309.62. 

At a meeting of the Directors, Physicians, 

and Lady Managers of the Hospital, held July 

7, 1885, it was decided to appropriate the Cot 

money, the Pavilion fund, and other money 

available for the purpose, amounting to $7,000, 

towards the erection of a Children's Pavilion 

and proceed at once with the work. 

With appropriate exercises the corner stone 

of the Pavilion was laid July 31,1885, and on 

the 11th of February, 1886, the building was 

formally opened. It was a gala day, long to 

be remembered. The Pavilion was decorated 

with Japanese devices and emblems, and more 

than fifty little folks, boys and girls, dressed 

in oriental costumes, took part in the Mikado 

Opera, and many of them worked energetically 

at the tables, to raise funds for furnishing 

the Pavilion. Over sixteen hundred guests testified 

by their presence their interest in this 

charity. The entrance fees, cash donations, 

and receipts from the supper table, amounting 

to $478.70, were added to the Pavilion fund, 

and receipts from different tables and cash donations 

amounted to $919.22. 

The Children's Pavilion is situated northwest 

of the west wing of the City Hospital. It 

is of brick eighty feet long by thirty-two wide, 

two stories and a half high, with a fine dormer 

roof. It is connected with the Hospital, but 

the main entrance is from the Hospital lawn 

on the east. Beneath the shelter of a friendly 

piazza there are hammocks for the little ones. 

The Boys' and Girls' Wards are on the lower 

floor, and the nursery and private rooms are on 

the second floor. The rooms and cots are many 

of them named for the children who have furnished 

them, or in memory of little ones, some 

of whom have entered the fold of the Good 

Shepherd. The "Maleva Room" takes its 

name from the initials of the Christian names 

of the little girls who furnished it: the " Julia 

and Edith Room" is named for two young 

misses who have proved invaluabte helpers ; 

the " Paul Room " is an aunt's tribute to a pet 

nephew. In the wards we have the "Jamie 

and Cora Laney Bed," the " Freeman Clarke 

Webb bed," the "Arthur and Howard L.Yates 

Bed," the "Children's Cot," the " Wentworth 

Bed," the "Marguerita Bed," the "Stella Bed," 

the " Three Little Maids' Bed," the "Rosalinda 

Bed," the " Isabel Bed," and others, the names 

of which have not yet been selected. 

A choice collection of children's books, given 

last winter, by Mrs. John Durand, forms the 

nucleus of a children's library. 

The Children's Pavilion, now occupied by 

the little folks, is an attractive, sunny, cheerful 

abode, where, under the best sanitary conditions, 

with skillful physicians and surgeons, 

and trained nurses, the children of the rich and 

the poor can receive help in the time of need. 

A debt of $4,190.38 still rests upon the Pavilion, 

and an ingenious chart, devised by Mrs. 

Robert Mathews, hangs in the Hospital, indicating 

what is needed to remove the debt. It 

was prepared when $5,000 were due. It is divided 

into 5,000 squares, each square representing 

a dollar. As fast as the dollars are contributed 

the squares are crossed off. Offerings 

for thiB object will be gratefully received by 

Mrs. Robert Mathews, Treasurer of the Pavilion 

Fund, 96 Spring street. 

Hours for Visitors. 

Visitors will be admitted to the Hospital 

from 10 to 12-and from 2 to 4 daily. Visitors 

are not admitted on Sundays, except by special 

permission from the Matron or Supervising 

nurse.


What Constitutes an Enduring Monument 

? 

It is a laudable characteristic of man that he 

should wish to perpetuate his name and works. 

The greater his accumulations the stronger is 

his desire that they should be associated in 

some way with himself after his own brief life 

is ended. By some, possessions are handed 

down to children, and it is hoped that thus a 

noble record will be preserved. By others, the 

end is sought by the erection of expensive 

tombs, or granite shafts, thought to be imperishable. 

A few, recognizing how unsatisfactory 

are these efforts, give large sums during 

their life in a way that bespeaks the highest 

philanthropy The pleasure derived from 

money thus used can hardly be overestimated, 

but in a laudable effort to preserve the 

family name, we know of no plan so effective 

and so certain as an endowment fund to an 

educational or charitable object, with the 

name of the donor forever attached thereto. 

To justify this disposition of funds, the institution 

to which they are given should be, in 

every sense of the word, enduring. 

•In looking about our city to determine what 

there is in it that is lasting and worthy of recognition, 

we think of the City Hospital as a 

representative institution. Based on a condition 

of things which must always exist, it is 

becoming year by ye ar more firmly established, 

and there can be no doubt that it will outlast 

the proudest mausoleum which man has yet 

erected. There is a reaction against costly memorial 

structures to the departed, which in no 

wise benefit the living, and a growing feeling 

that the noblest, the truest, the best testimonial 

that can be made by us while in this world, or 

left in departing from it, is a benefaction to an 

enduring charity. 

In view of the foregoing, the Lady Managers 

of the Rochester City Hospital have decided to 

give the Wards, Halls, Private Rooms and 

Beds, in this institution, family names, by 

which they shall be known forever, in consideration 

of gifts varying in amount made to the 

institution by persons who recognize this noble 

charity and wish to have their names permanently 

associated with it. The constitution of 

the Hospital has been so amended as to incorporate 

and confirm this action. If the building 

should be destroyed, a new one would be 

erected, and the names of Wards, Halls, 

Private Rooms and Beds would go on unchanged. 


In noticing this action, we commend it to a 

generous public as one which places within the 

means of a considerable number of people an 

excellent opportunity to aid a noble charity, 

and at the same time, to perpetuate a family 

heritage in a way most exalted and ennobling, 

and more enduriDg than granite. 

We subjoin a copy of the contract which the 

Directors of the Hospital are prepared to execute 

with those parties who name a ward, or 

name and endow a perpetual free bed in a 

ward or private room, according to accompanying 

figures. Persons interested will have 

the privilege of naming the parts of the 'Hospital 

for which the sums given by them are 

adequate—and these names will go on forever 

—all of the records of the Hospital will embody 

them, and they will be inscribed, with a 

date if desired, upon a neat tablet, set in the 

wall The directors will furnish a guarantee 

duly attested, making the action binding for 

all time: 

Naming of the Large Wards $10,000 each 

End Wards 5,000 " 

Small Wards 3.000 " 

" Private Rooms 2,000 " 

" a Bed in a Ward 1,000 " 

For Perpetual Bed in Private Room 7,000 " 

" Perpetual Bed in a Ward 5,000 " 

" Bed during the life of the donor 3,000 " 

" Bed in a Private Ward for a year 300 " 

'' Bed in a General Ward for a year 200 '' 

MRS. M. STRONG, 

MRS. W. H. PERKINS, 

MRS. M. M. MATHEWS, 

MRS. A. P. SMITH, 

MRS. J. H.'BREWSTER, 

MRS. H. H. MORSE, 

MISS A. S. MUMFORD. 

Executive Com. Lady Managers. 

Copy of Contract, 

This indenture, made this day of 

A. D., 188-, between " The Rochester 

City Hospital," a body corporate under Chapter 

233 of the Laws of 1847, and the acts 

amendatory thereof, of the first part, and 

of the second part, witnesseth: That in consideration 

of the sum of dollars paid into 

the permanent fund of said Hospital by the 

party of the second part, the party of the ffrst 

part hereby agrees and covenants that such 

name or inscription as the party of the second 

part may designate, duly inscribed on a metal 

or stone tablet, shall be attached to such bed



or portion as said party of the second part may 

designate then being unendowed, which portion 

of said Hospital shall bear such name or 

inscription, publicly affixed to it for all time 

to come; and said bed or portion shall be 

known by such name, in the clinical and other 

records of said Hospital, whenever reference is 

made to said bed or portion. And the said 

party of the first part, by this instrument doth 

further covenant and agree with the party of 

the second part, that in case of damage or destruction 

of said Hospital by fire or other causes, 

and in case the same is repaired or rebuilt, the 

same portion, or an equivalent portion, of such 

Hospital structure as shall subsequently be 

erected, shall bear, and continue to bear said 

name or inscription, by which it shall be 

known. 

The above fund being created by party of 

the second part with the design of maintaining 

a perpetual free bed in said Hospital, said party 

of the first part binds itself and its successors, 

not only to maintain such name or inscription, 

but also for the maintenance, the nursing, the 

medical and surgical care of the occupant of 

said free bed. Permission is hereby also given 

to party of second part to determine, and he 

shall have the right to determine who shall be 

the occupant of said free bed at all times; and 

said party of the second part may will, devise 

or bequeath such control of said free bed; provided, 

however, that the said party of the first 

part shall have the right to the use of said bed 

whenever the same shall be actually vacant. 

And on failure of the party of the first part to 

perform and fulfil said conditions or any part 

thereof, they, their successors or assigns, will 

pay to the party of second part, his heirs, next 

of kin, personal representatives or assigns, the 

whole principal sum contributed on said conditions, 

to wit: dollars on demand. 

In witness whereof, parties of first part have 

caused these presents to be signed by their 

President, and their corporate seal to be hereto 

affixed, the day and year first above written. 

STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 

COUNTY OF MONROE, V ss. 

CITY OF ROCHESTER, ) 

On this day of 188—, to me 

personally known, came before me who being 

by me sworn, did say that he resides in the 

city of Rochester, and is President of the Rochester 

City Hospital and of its Board of Directors; 

that the seal affixed to the following 

is the corporate seal of said Hospital and 

Board, and was thereto affixed by order of said 

Board of Directors, at a meeting thereof, duly 

convened; and that he signed the same as 

President of said Hospital and said Board of 

Directors, by virtue of a like order of said 

Board of Directors. 

It will be seen below, that the suggestions 

embodied in the foregoing article have been 

acted upon already, by several parties interested 

in the Hospital. 

Endowed Beds. 

THE ERICKSON BED. 

Mrs. W. S. Nichols of New York, and Mrs. 

Gilman H. Perkins of Rochester, daughters 

of the late Mr. Aaron Erickson, in memory of 

their father, gave $5,000 for the endowment of 

a Perpetual Free Bed. A neat marble tablet, 

inscribed the " Erickson Perpetual Free Bed," 

was set in the wall of the Female Medical 

Ward. 

THE GREENWOOD BED. 

Mr. John Greenwood, one of our most honored 

citizens, by the payment of $5,000 has 

also endowed a Perpetual Free Bed. On the 

wall of the main hall of the Hospital is a tablet 

of brass, in the form of a Greek cross, on 

which is the following inscription : A Free Bed 

Endowed in Perpetuity by John Greenwood, 

1883. " All things come of Thee, and of 

Thine own have we given Thee." 

We call attention to these worthy acts, and 

hope that others, by thus adding to our endowment 

fund, will prove themselves imperishable 

benefactors of the Hospital. 

THE CHILDREN'S COT 

wa9 endowed by the gift of $3,000, the offerings 

of children and their friends. 

THE FEMALE CHARITABLE SOCIETY 

was the first to endow a bed in the Hospital. 

A portion of the funds available for this purpose 

were the proceeds of the sale of a Charity School 

lot, given by the late Col. Wm. Fitzhugh, and 

$500 of it the bequest of the late Everard Peck. 

THE FIREMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION 

Endowed the second bed for the benefit of 

their members. 

Miss H. S. Mumford recently gave $200 to 

maintain a free bed for a year in the Children's 

Pavilion.


Names of Private Booms and Wards. 

Some of the wards and many of the private 

rooms which are tasteful, homelike and attractive 

in their appointments, bear the names of 

churches, societies or individuals, that have 

furnished them and keep them in repair. The 

parlor furniture is supplied by the First Baptist 

Church. We have the Hebrew Ward; the 

Union Blues' Room; St. Paul's Church Room ; 

Second Baptist, St. Luke's, Brick, First Presbyterian, 

Central, Universalist, and Plymouth 

Church Rooms; also, the Reynolds, 

the Bullard, the Greentree, the Atkinson, the 

Dunlap, the VanEpps, the Strong, the McKennan, 

and the Halsey Rooms. They retain their 

names only so long as they are kept in order by 

churches or individuals who have furnished 

them. 

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Training School for Nurses. 

By an act of the Legislature the charter of 

the Hospital was so amended as to incorporate 

our Training School an'd make it a proper object 

for special bequests. It should be liberally 

endowed, and we trust that the friends of the 

Hospital and friends of the sick will remember 

this feature of our work by liberal sums 

during their lives, or in their final testaments. 

Conditions for Admission of Pupils 

to Training School for Nurses. 

We publish the conditions for admission of 

pupils, and give also the Rules of the School. 

Pupils are desired who are healthy, intelligent 

and refined, and will come, if accepted, with a 

determination to devote themselves to a work 

which we deem as exalted and ennobling as 

any they can undertake. 

Applicants must be single women ; between 

twenty and thirty-five years of age ; possessed 

of a good education ; of perfect health and 

unexceptionable moral character. They ehall 

reside in the Hospital, and devote their time to 

the care of the patients, under the direction of 

the Supervising Nurse and the Attending Physicians 

and Surgeons. 

Board, washing and the nominal sum of ten 

dollars per month shall be deemed remuneration 

in full for services rendered by nurses. 

No applicant will be received for a less period 

than two years. 

Applicants, whose letters are satisfactory, 

will be directed to make personal application 


to the Committee on Admissions, that their 

qualifications for the work may be more fully 

ascertained. Those who are accepted will 

serve on probation one month, before being 

regularly enrolled as pupils of the school. 

Instructions to Applicants. 

Application must be made in your own 

handwriting and addressed to Mrs. M. M. 

Mathews, Corresponding Secretary, 96 Spring 

street, Rochester, N. Y. 

1. State your name in full, and present address. 

2. State whether single, widowed or divorced. 

If widowed or divorced, state whether 

you have, or have had any children. 

3. State the date and place of your birth. 

4. State height and weight. 

5. State where educated, when you left 

school, and what your occupations have been. 

6. State whether perfectly strong and well. 

7. Have you fear of any disease to the care 

of which you might be assigned ? 

8. State whether you are a member of of regular 

attendant at any church, and if so, name 

the denomination. 

9. Give names and address of two persons 

to be referred to as to your character, and state 

how long each has known you. 

Rules for Nurses in the Training 

School of the Rochester City 

Hospital. 

I. 

Nurses will be appointed by the Training 

School Committee of the Lady Managers. 

Term of service is two years. Any nurse 

whose services are not satisfactory may be discharged 

at any time A Diploma will be issued 

only to those nurses who pass a satisfactory 

examination upon the subjects taught 

during the course. 

II. 

Nurses will be subject to the Supervising 

Nurse, or such person as may be placed in 

charge by the Lady Managers, prompt obedience 

to whose orders will be required, and also 

to the Rules and Regulations of the Hospital. 

The nurses will wear while on duty noiseless 

shoes, and the uniform adopted for the School. 

III. 

They will meet the Medical officers when 

they enter the wards, and be prepared to give



such information about the patients as may be 

desired. They will maintain order in their respective 

wards, and report any impropriety on 

the. part of the patients or helpers to the Supervising 

Nurse. 

IV.. 

They will keep an account of all articles sent 

to the laundry from their wards, and if not returned 

in proper condition, report the same to 

the Matron. Nurses will apply to the Matron 

for such articles, needed for the care of the 

sick, as are under her charge. 

V. 

Nurses on beginning their morning duties 

will see that all offensive vessels and articles 

are removed, and the patients prepared for 

their breakfast. 

VI. 

Written orders for extra diet prescribed by 

the Attending Physicians must be left in the 

office, in season for preparation. Each nurse 

will serve a stated time in the Nurses' Diet 

Kitchen. 

VII. 

Nurses will do night duty at- such times as 

the Supervising Nurse shall direct. Both the 

day and the night nurses will make such records 

and observations in writing as the Physicians 

or Supervising Nurse may require. 

vin. 

Particular attention must be given by the 

Nurses to their rooms, also to their clothing 

and persons (hair, teeth, fingernails, etc.,) to 

make themselves acceptable to the sick. 

IX. 

Should occasion require any nurse to leave 

the ward, she must see that the proper person 

takes her place, as the ward must not be left 

without an attendant. 

X. 

Nurses must not leave the Hospital without 

permission of the Supervising Nurse. They 

will have a vacation of a fortnight each year, 

with the approval of the School Committee, 

unless the exigencies of the Hospital make 

their continuous presence necessary. 

XI. 

Nurses will be at their meals, if possible in 

season. No nurse shall order anything different 

from what is provided. The Supervising 

Nurse will see that any nurse who is ill has 

proper diet. 

XII. 

Nurses will not, without permission, visit 

patients or nurses in other wards. During the 

hours that the nurses are relieved from ducy 

for purposes of rest, they will remain out of 

the wards. 

XIII. 

Nurses, deemed competent by the Attending- 

Physician and the Supervising Nurse for private 

nursing, will be detailed, from time totime, 

on such duty in the Hospital, or in 

private families. 

XIV. 

The Supervising Nurse will not permit any 

pupil in the School to be absent from the Hospital 

after 9:30 P. M. without special permission, 

and without knowing where the nurse is 

to be during such absence. 

Nurses will retire to' their rooms at or before 

10 P. M. and lights must be extinguished by 

10:30. 

XV. 

The Supervising Nurse will keep a written 

record of delinquencies on the part of each 

pupil and report the same monthly (or immediately, 

when it is thought the act is 

intentional) to the Committee in .charge of 

the School, who will take proper action thereupon. 

By " delinquencies " are meant all violations 

of rules or neglect of duty, or disregard of 

written or verbal instructions given from time 

to time by the Supervising nurse. 

Each pupil will be informed of the delinquencies 

which it is the duty of the Supervising 

Nurse to record in compliance with these 

instructions. v 

XVI. 

No comments will be made by nurses upon 

the treatment of patients by different physicians, 

but all will be shown equal respect and 

obedience. 

The peculiarities and weaknesses of patients 

will be treated with consideration, and due 

reticence will be observed concerning their histories, 

diseases and treatment. 

Nurses will readily see that they have chosen 

a work of great responsibility. Rules and the 

strict observance of them, are necessary for all 

who would excel, as they tend' to the formation 

of regular habits and teach self-control, 

both of which a nurse should cultivate.


Instruction Given to Pupils in the 

Training Scbool. 

Some persons have expressed surprise that 

two years are required for the acquisition of 

the knowledge which a nurse should possess. 

But the time is not too long. Besides daily 

bedside instruction and practical training,about 

one hundred lectures are given during the 

course, by members of the Medical and Surgical 

Staff, on subjects connected with the work 

of the nurse. To these lectures we can only 

refer briefly and in part. They relate to the 

elements of anatomy, physiology and hygiene, 

the counting of the pulse and respiration, 

the use of the fever thermometer, the secretions, 

the introduction of the catheter, the 

administering of injections, the use of medicines 

and the various modes of relieving pain, 

the preparation of food, the care of patients 

during and after confinement, baths and attention 

to the skin, fomentations, cups, leeches, 

the application and dressing of blisters, the 

preparation of poultices, the care of patients 

before, during and after operations, the 

care of surgical instruments, the preparation 

and application of bandages, the nursing of 

contagious diseases, the care of the eye when 

diseased, and after operations, the nursing of 

sick children, hemorrhage, ventilation, disinfection, 

poisons, artificial respiration, massage, 

passive and Swedish movements, laying 

out of a dead body, etc. 

Special attention is given to bedside instruction 

and the endeavor is made to cultivate the 

faculty of observation, and to make it of practical 

value, by requiring the nurses to keep 

written records of cases in the intervals of the 

physician's visits, so that he can the better understand 

the condition of the patient during 

his absence. 

It will be seen in another article that a 

nurses' diet kitchen has been established, 

where nurses are taught cooking for the sick, 

and where they are obliged to serve a month 

or more, devoting their time exclusively to the 

preparation of articles of diet. In these and 

other ways the nurse becomes able to appreciate 

the condition of different patients, and to 

contribute to their relief in a manner that 

would be impossible without such training. 

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Nurses' Diet Kitchen. 

The Nurses' Diet Kitchen was opened December 

1st, 1883, and is designed to give the 

pupils of the Training School practical famil- 


iarity with the preparation of articles of diet 

for the sick. Each'nurse is obliged to serve for 

a month or more in the Diet Kitchen. We 

mention only a portion of the articles prepared 

therein, from a list furnished to us by the Supervising 

Nurse: 

Gruels of all kinds, beef-tea, beef-juice, 

chicken and mutton broth, oysters in various 

ways, plain omelets, broiled steak and chops, 

eggs, hominy, rice, porridge, lemon, orange 

and wine jellies, graham mush, tomatoes, potatoes, 

pears, apples, flaxseed tea, brown and 

gluten bread, and milk toast. 

These and other articles, as they are ordered 

by the attending Physicians, are transcribed 

by the Ward Nurses on proper blanks, which 

are then sent to the Nurse on duty in the Diet 

Kitchen. 

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Nurses for Private Patients in City 

or Country. 

Advanced pupils will be assigned to the care 

of private patients in the city or beyond its 

limits, when the services of a trained nurse are 

desired. Application should be made to the 

Supervising Nurse at the Hospital, and should 

state the nature of the case and the probable 

length of time the nurse will be required. 

Nurses thus sent out continue under the direction 

of the Hospital, and are subject to recall 

at any time if the exigencies of the Hospital 

require their presence. The price for a 

nurse will be two dollars per day, or ten dollars 

per week, payment to be made to the Recorder 

at the Hospital. Traveling expenses, and washing, 

where nurses are sent out of the city, will 

be paid by persons engaging them. 

We would respectfully suggest, to insure the 

vigilant care of the sick, that the nurse should 

have a proper amount of sleep, and an opportunity 

for at least one hour's daily exercise in 

the open air. Nurses depended upon for night 

watching should be provided with a midnight 

lunch. 

Special Lectures to the Pupils of the 

Training School. 

Dr. E. H. Howard, physician in charge of 

the Monroe County Insane Asylum, has 

kindly consented to give one or more lectures 

to the pupils of our training School, 

on The Nursing of Cases Marked by Mental 

Derangement. 

The time of the lectures will be announced 

hereafter.



Annual Examination of First-Year 

Pupils. 

Ever since the establishment of the Training 

School for Nurses connected with" the Hospital, 

it has been the aim of those in charge to 

increase the efficiency of the School by the 

adoption of measures which would make the 

training more valuable to the pupils. Whereas 

formerly a final examination was held by the 

Staff each year, hereafter two examinations will 

be held yearly, one of pupils who have finished 

the two years' course and are candidates for 

graduation, and the other of the pupils who 

have completed the first year of training. The 

range of studies now gone over in the two 

years' course is so wide that it has been 

impossible to compass them all in a single 

examination. 

The first year pupils, known as the class of 

1887, now in the School, were examined by the 

Staff of the Hospital on June 15th and 19th 

upon the following subjects : 

Care of sick-room. 

Bed-making. 

Bathing patients. 

Poultices. 

Enemata. 

Douches. 

Feeding patients. 

Moving patients. 

Stupes. 

General division of medicines. 

Pain, nausea and vomiting. 

Weights and measures. 

Application and dressing of blisters. 

Application of bandages. 

Keeping of records. 

Disinfection. 

General anatomy. 

Care of eye after operations. 

Care of wounds. 

Preparation of diet. 

Names of gynecological instruments. 

Tampons—Dossils. 

The result of these examinations determines 

the fitness of the pupils to go on with the 

second year of training. 

List ol Graduates. 

The following are the graduates from the 

Training School for Nurses : 

1883. 

Miss L. A. Markham, Miss M. E. Campbell, 

Miss E. Dickinson, Miss M. E. Dyson. 

1884. 

Miss C. E. Sherman, Miss K. A. Hathaway, 

Miss S. Tytler, Miss A. J. Conroy, 

Miss S. H. Perry, Miss F. A. Ostrander, 

Miss A. J. Sherman, Miss F. A. Mitchell, 

Miss M, B. Bullard. 

1885. 

Miss C. Mueller, Miss M. L. Foulds. 

Miss D. M. Hull, Miss F. E. Thorne, 

Miss M. R. Thorne, Mrs. E. L. Spencer. 

1886 

Miss N. A. Lewis, Miss E. Hollister, 

Miss E. Da Belle, Miss L. L. Jacokes, 

Miss E. H. Casson. Miss L. M. MitcheU, 

Miss E. A. Taylor, Miss J. M. Corby, 

Miss E. C. Sanford. 

Miss L. A. Markham was appointed Supervising 

Nurse in 1883, immediately after she 

graduated, and still holds this position. Miss 

M. E Campbell has been for a year Superindent 

of the Auburn, (N. Y.) City Hospital. 

Two of the graduates, Miss Mueller and Mrs. 

Spencer, have married. Miss Perry entered 

the school after having received the degree of 

M. D. at Buffalo Medical College, and is now 

practising medicine in this city. Four of the 

graduates are studying medicine. The others 

named are occupied in this city and vicinity. 

Their work has been so satisfactory that their 

services are in constant demand. 

Nurses' Diploma. 

The following is the form of Diploma 

issued to the Nurses at the Commencement 

exercises held in the Spring of each 

year : 

ROCHESTER CITY HOSPITAL. 

(Cut of Hospital.) 

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. 

This is to certify that has 

pursued and satisfactorily completed the prescribed 

course of Instruction for the regular 

term of two years, at the Training School for 

Nurses of the Rochester City Hospital, and has 

upon examination given satisfactory evidence 

of her qualifications as a Nurse. Given at the 

City of Rochester, New York, this 

day of in the year of our Lord eighteen 

hundred and eighty.... 

Signed by the President of the Board of 

Direotors, Secretary, Executive Committee of 

Lady Managers, Medical and Surgical Staff, 

and bearing the seal of the Hospital.


Our Greatest Want. 

In 1866 there were treated by Dr. Rider, in 

the Hospital, fourteen cases of eye disease. 

Now, twenty years later, we have about that 

number of patients constantly under treatment. 

Statistics, that are not at hand, would show a 

constant increase of cases, proportionate to the 

other departments, though no provision has as 

yet been made for their exclusive accommodation. 

The disadvantages of placing such patients 

promiscuously in all the wards is being 

felt more and more each day. Accidents, not 

infrequent, arising from inability to arrange 

proper light, ventilation, and attention, are 

too well remembered by patients, and reflect 

upon both the Institution and the attending 

physician. 

We have separate and exclusive accommodations 

for the other departments, and we 

must have th'em for this, where so much depends 

upon the after treatment of operations, 

which equal in number, probably, all others 

performed in the Hospital during the last 

twenty years. 

There is no room for these patients at present. 

What we need is a separate building, 

with operating room, nurse's room, and three 

or four small wards. It is an outlay fully warranted, 

even demanded, by present conditions. 

No one can walk through the wards of the 

house without noticing the bandaged eyes of 

patients from all parts of our state, and feeling 

that all that lies in our power should be done 

to contribute to the success of their search for 

light. Some action must be taken in this matter 

soon. The children are well provided for; 

let us have as good facilities for our patients 

who come to us blind, and who would be less 

apt to leave us in the same condition if we 

have an Ophthalmic Pavilion named after 

some Good Samaritan. 


I. Two assistants to the Medical and Surgical 

staff are annually appointed by the Medical 

and Surgical staff from recent graduates 

in medicine. They shall be termed the Senior 

House Officer and the Junior House Officer, 

and shall serve for one year, unless sooner discharged, 

entering upon their duties April 1st 

and October 1st respectively. They shall reside 

in the Hospital and render their profes- 


sional services exclusively to its inmates, under 

the direction ol the attending physicians 

and surgeons. 

II. They shall carry out the instructions of 

the Staff of the Hospital with reference to the 

arrangement, care and treatment of patients ; 

shall accompany the attending physician and 

surgeon as they may direct, and physicians 

visiting private patients on their stated visits. 

III. The Senior House Officer shall have 

charge of the dispensary and all medical and 

surgical appliances, shall see that prescriptions 

are promptly and carefully dispensed and 

that all instruments are in a serviceable condition. 

IV. He shall maintain proper ventilation 

in the wards, observe that the nurses are efficient, 

and shall report any disorderly conduct 

on the part of patients or attendants to the 

attending physician and surgeon. 

V He may refuse admission to the Hospital 

to any case of contagious or infectious disease 

until the advice of the attending physician 

or surgeon can be obtained ; in cases of 

emergency, he shall act on his best judgment, 

sending without delay for one or more of the 

attending medical officers. 

VI. He shall allow no person unconnected 

with the Hospital, unless invited by the attending 

physician or surgeon, to accompany 

them into the wards, or at any time to make 

an examination of patients. 

VII. He shall keep a full clinical record of 

all cases in the Hospital, making such 

entries as the attending medical officers shall 

direct. 

VIII. He shall make a daily morning and 

evening visit through the wards; shall notify 

the relatives or friends of patients who may 

be seriously ill, and send for such religious adviser 

as the patient may desire. 

IX. The Hospital shall at no time be 

left without the attendance of one of the 


X. In the performance of the foregoing 

duties the Junior House Officer shall render 

such aid as may be desired by the Senior 

House Officer and in the absence of the latter, 

will assume his duties. 

Application for the position of House Officer 

should be made to Dr. E.V. Stoddard, Secretary 

of the Staff, Rochester, N. Y.



Chapel Services. 

For a year or two after the opening of the 

Hospital a short religious service was held 

every Sunday afternoon in one of the larger 

wards, and afterwards in the large upper hall. 

In the changes in the main building incident 

to the putting up of the west mansard, a room 

was set apart for a Chapel, and furnished by 

the ladies of St. Peter's Church, with carpet, 

reading-desk, chairs and books. In the recent 

changes the Chapel has been greatly improved 

and a new carpet and cabinet organ have been 

provided. 

For a few years some of our city pastors 

took charge of the services, but for many years 

students from the Rochester Theological Seminary 

have conducted the Sunday afternoon 

services very faithfully and acceptably. Many 

of these young men have done efficient mission 

work, visiting the patients in the wards during 

the week, and by reading or prayer, comforting 

the sick and dying. In the summer 

months the religious services have been conducted 

by the Young Men's Christian Association. 

Flower Mission. 

This Mission was organized by some young 

ladies of St. Luke's Church in the summer of 

1875. A committee of ladies meet every Saturday 

morning in St. Luke's Guild Room, to 

receive contributions of flowers, which they 

make into bouquets and carry to the City Hospital, 

and every week each patient receives a 

bouquet. In the summer the ladies are dependent 

upon the kindness of their friends to 

supply them from their gardens, and in winter 

the sum of 25 cents is collected from members. 

Members of the Mission, if notified, will 

gladly call for flowers. Contributions of money, 

flowers, fruit and delicacies are earnestly 

solicited, and may be sent any Saturday morning 

at 10 o'clock, to St. Luke's Guild Room 

(in the rear of the Church). Only those who 

have witnessed the lighting up of wan and 

pale faces, as the visitor draws near with pleasant 

words and bright flowers, can appreciate 

the value of this humble mission. 

Besides the contributions by the Flower 

Mission, many of the friends of the sick bring 

offerings of fruit, flowers, and delicacies, for 

which we are duly grateful. At Christmas 

and Easter every patient receives a card with 

the flowers. 

Annual Donation. 

As the annual expenses of the Rochester City 

Hospital far exceed the receipts from paying 

patients, and as the interest from the endowment 

fund is comparatively small, the Lady 

Managers are accustomed, soon after Thanksgiving, 

to hold an Annual Donation Festival, 

the avails of which are devoted to the payment 

of the current expenses of the Hospital. The 

Festival is under the direction of the Lady 

Managers of the Citv Hospital, some of whom 

act as a reception committee. Mrs. William 

H. Perkins, the treasurer, receives the cash 

donations. 

Refreshment tables, laden with the substantials 

and delicacies of the season, are provided 

and served by the ladies of many of the 

churches, and friends from the city and country 

are cordially invited to partake of the 

tempting viands, and offer their gifts to the 

Hospital. The price for a dinneris one dollar; 

for a supper fifty cents. 

Fancy tables display a pleasing variety of 

artistic embroidery, decorated china, and useful 

and ornamental articles, and afford a timely 

opportunity for procuring Christmas gifts. 

Candy, flower and ice-cream tables, are pleasant 

features on Donation Day, and the mite 

boxes are then received and distributed. 

The children manifest their interest in the 

Hospital by their contributions to the Children's 

Pavilion Table and Endowment Fund, 

and by other device3 to raise money. 

The Treasurer of THE HOSPITAL REVIEW, 

Mrs. Robert Mathews, receives subscriptions to 

the REVIEW, and welcomes new subscribers. 

The city papers gratuitously notice and advertise 

our festivals, and citizens and friends by 

their contributions, their presence, their personal 

services, and the loaning of needed articles, 

unite in making our donation festivalsnoble 

offerings to this worthy charity. 

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Mite Boxes. 

The Mite Boxes were first distributed at the 

Hospital donation December 9th, 1875, at the 

suggestion of one of the Lady Managers. The 

wants of the Hospital were so urgent, that it 

was hoped the receipts from this source would 

supply some of the more pressing demands, 

for which the Tegular monthly receipts were 

not available. The results have surpassed the 

most sanguine expectations. The following 

report shows the amount of money received 

and how expended:


Received from February 1, 1876, to 

July 1, 1886 $3,603 76 

Cost of mite boxes to July 1, 1886 .. $ 215 22 

Ice house and repairs 630 68 

Root house and repairs 501 00 

Morgue 662 16 

Painting, repairs and furnishing in 

Hospital 1,205 87 

Balance on stone walk 388 00 

$3,602 93 

Balance 83 

$3,603 76 

Will not such grand success prompt the 

friends of the Hospital to be ready to receive 

the Mite Boxes and thus do all in their power 

in this small way to help on the work ? 

Wants. 

Money, to apply on the various departments 

of the Hospital, is our great want, but everything 

that is useful in a family is acceptable. 

Donations are solicited of fuel, flour, provisions 

of every description, fresh and canned 

fruit and vegetables, eggs, butter, delicacies 

for the sick, pillows, sheets, pillow-cases, 

towels, old quilts or bed tidies, made of factory 

and cotton batting quilted together, and 

clothing for males or females. We want 

also infant's clothing, and old cotton, for 

all of which there is a frequent demand. 


On the last Monday of June we visited the 

Hospital and found the settees and hammocks, 

on the Hospital lawn, the attractive lounging 

places for many of the invalids. One of the 

small pavilions was being disinfected after the 

departure of scarlet fever patients; the Hall 

Pavilion was occupied by a man whose gangrenous 

foot had been amputated, and who 

was gaining slowly. 

Sixteen were under treatment in the Male 

Medical Ward. One man had died during the 

month of canc#r. Two men were confined to 

their cots; the one was the eczema patient, 

who gains very slowly ; the other was suffering 

from some disease of the bowels. An eye 

patient had had a successful operation and returned 

home ; another was waiting to have a 

cataract removed. One man had his eye bandaged, 

it having been injured while he was at 

work as a stone cutter. ' One aged man was 


blind. Some of the inmates were afflicted with 

rheumatism, others with cancers. 

No death had occurred in the Male Surgical 

Ward, where eight were receiving treatment. 

The man whose feet were injured by falling in 

an elevator was sitting up in bed ; one of his 

feet was doing well, the other was improving 

very slowly. The man with an ulcerated leg 

was so much better that he was expecting very 

soon to return to his home. The man who so 

long has suffered from a burnt limb is very 

much better and on pleasant days goes out of 

doors. There was but little change in the individuals 

suffering from chronic diseases. A 

boy eighteen years old, whose hand had been 

injured by a sandpaper machine while smoothing 

wood for a mosaic floor, had his entire fore 

arm enclosed in a box, and immersed in heated 

water, kept at a certain temperature by a 

lamp beneath it and a tube passing through 

the water; the wound looked angry and inflamed,and 

the arm and hand were much swollen. 

Another patient had lost two fingers and 

the top of a third, they having been cut off by 

a buzz saw. 

Two of the fifteen inmates of the Female 

Surgical Ward were confined to their cots. 

Four eye patients who had had cataracts removed 

were all doing well. Some persons 

were afflicted with cancers. The woman whose 

hip was fractured was up, dressed and going 

about on crutches. Tilly has had no operation 

of late. "Grossmutter" and "Grandmother" 

were about in their ordinary condition. 

There were sixteen under treatment in the 

Female Medical Ward. Minnie Bryant, who 

has been in the Hospital more than two years, 

had died of disease of the heart. Some 

of the patients in this ward were suffering 

from eczema, diseases of the heart and kidneys, 

consumption, paralysis, internal cancers, 

chronic pleurisy with effusion, and rheumatism. 


Five mothers and four babies were in the 

Nursery, and it was a pretty sight to see the 

little ones all sleeping soundly in a large cot. 

In the Boys' WaTd we found our little German 

friend, Max Kraus, who has curvature of 

the spine, Tommy H., who has two abscesses, 

and Freddy L., who has one. on his hip. A 

new patient, Joe Smith, ten years old, had 

been thrown down by boys and broken his arm 

at the elbow. He wore a sling, but did not appear 

to be suffering much.



In the Girls' Ward was Theodosia Banta, 

seven years old, who wears a plaster of Paris 

jacket to benefit her spine which ha8 a curvature. 

Sarah, the little colored girl, with diseased 

spine, when last we saw her, was taking 

a nap in the hammock on the Pavilion piazza, 

with the French doll, that we have named 

Daisy Perry, in her arms. Ida Rivers, who has 

granulated eyelids is much better, she occupied 

the "Paul" room and the shades were partially 

drawn to soften the light for her sensitive 

eyes. 

The "Julia and Edith Room." 

The good works of our little friends Edith 

Peck and Julia Robinson have attracted the 

attention of a friend of children in the most 

eastern of the New England States. 

Miss Sophie May of Norridgewock, Maine, 

who writes such pretty stories for children, 

heard of the little girls who had worked so 

hard to raise money for the Cot Fund, and then 

to furnish a room in the Children's Pavilion, 

and sent to them the following letter, addressed 

to "Misses Edith and Julia, Care Mr. Wm. 

F. Peck, No. 48 Atkinson St., Rochester, N.Y." 

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS:—Ever since Mrs. 

G. told me a few weeks ago of your lovely 

work for suffering children, I have wanted to 

write and say to you that I am glad you are 

both alive upon the earth. I think I should 

know you—with caps—for I have seen your 

photograph. I was sorry to hear of the hasty 

flight of the poor " Birdie." (A little girl who 

occupied their room only one night.) She did 

not know what was best for her, did she ? 

I would like to do a small thing for your 

children. Do you think any of them would 

enjoy reading my little books ? If you saj 

" yes," and will specify which one of the four 

sets they would probably choose, I will gladly 

forward it by express. 

I saw your city in April, and thought it very 

beautiful. Wishing you health, • happiness, 

and success in all your works, I am yours with 

sincere admiration, respect and sympathy. 

SOPHIE MAY. 

The little girls accepted Miss May's kind 

offer, and have received from her the Flaxie 

Frizzle set, consisting of six volumes, bound 

in red, and nicely illustrated, a most acceptable 

present for the "Julia and Edith Room.'' We 

trust many sick children will enjoy these 

stories, and we wish their kind donor could 

look in upon our Hospital children and see 

them as they read her books. 

Gash Donations. 

Legacy from the late Mrs. George J.Whitney 

$3,000 00 

Mrs. Clarence Mitchell, Lakewood, N.J. $10 00 

Mr. Alfred Wright 25 00 

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Annual Subscriptions. 

ADDITIONAL DONATIONS. 

By Mrs. D. Andrews : 

Mrs. A. G. Whitcomb, Scrantom, Wetmore 

& Co., Buck & Sanger, Mr. Bloss, Hayden 

Furnishing Co., W. H. Bowman, 

Mrs. Saml. Wilder, Mrs. W. C. Powers, 

W. H. Cogswell, Ailing & Cory, Mrs. E. 

M. Smith, Theodore Bacon, Mrs. L. G. 

Corning, $5.00 each $65 00 

Mrs. D. A. Watson $25 00 

Mrs. E. C. Warren, Mrs. S. D. Walbridge, 

Ballard & Hurlburt, $2.00 each $6 00 

Cash, Cash, Mrs. Frank Ward, Miss Julia 

Griffith, $1.00 each $4 00 

By Mrs. H. F. Huntington: 

Mrs. Alfred Wright, Mrs. D. W. Wright, 

Mrs. Isaac Gibbard, Alphonso Collins, 

Mrs. Joseph Flint, Mrs. W. A. Williamson, 

$5.00 each $30 00 

By Mrs. Landsberg : 

Mrs. Frank B. Bishop $5 00 

By Mrs. C. E. Mathews : 

Miss Hebbard $5 00 

By Mrs. W. H. Perkins : 

Mrs. Howard Osgood, Mrs. Clarke Johnston, 

Mrs. W. H. Perkins, Mrs. W. J. 

Averell, Ogdensburg; Mrs. B. R. Lawrance, 

Mrs. C. W. Trotter, Mrs. K. P. 

Shedd, A. DeVos. Mrs. W. S. Kimball, 

Mrs. J. H. Stedman, $5.00 each $50 00 

Mrs. W. H. Ross Lewin, Wilson & Co., 

$10.00 each $20 00 

By Mrs. Strong: 

Mr. James Johnston $5 00 

By Miss Wild: 

Mrs. C. D. Van Zandt, H. A. Brewster, 

Hay wood Hawks, Miss A. E. M. Wild, 

$5.00 each $20 00 

MRS. W H. PERKINS, Treasurer. 

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Number in Hospital June 1 85 

Received during month 65 

Births 5 

155 

Discharged during month 55 

Deaths 2 

Remaining in Hospital July 1 98 

155



Miss M. E. Bowen, Boston $ 5 00 

Interest on deposit 3 47 

Proceeds of fair held by May Carpenter 

and Gertie Blakeslee, assisted by 

Annie and Josie Quinn, May Blakeslee, 

Jessie Woodworth and Alice 

Rogers 9 06 

Dr. W. S. Ely 10 00 

Mr. S. J. Macy 5 00 

Mr. John fl. Brewster 10 00 

" A Friend " 5 00 

Dr. M. L. Mallory 5 00 

Mr. Edward Brewster 1 00 

Mr. R. A. Sibley 10 00 

Receipts for the month $63 53 

Previously acknowledged 2,246 09 

Total Receipts $2,309 62 


last payment for the Children's Pavilion, and 

free the building from the blemish of a debt, 

Contributions are urgently solicited to make 

up this amount, and should be sent to Mrs. 

Robert Mathews, 96 Spring street, the treasurer 

of the fund. 


FOR JUNE, 1886. 

Mrs. W. Clarke, New York, by Mrs. S. 

H.Terry. $ 50 

Mrs. C. N. Wixom, Starkey, by Mrs. 

C. E. Converse 50 

E. T. H. Cottman, 65 cents; Mrs. J. N. 

Pomeroy, San Francisco, $1, by Mrs. 

W.H.Perkins.... 165 

E. B. Booth & Son, adv., $5; Burke, 

Fitz Simons, Hone & Co., adv., 

$26; E. H. Cook Co., adv., $10; 

H. Likly & Co., adv., $5; Oaks & 

Stern, adv., $5; K. P. Shedd, adv., 

$5; H. C. Wisner, adv., $5, by Mrs. M. 

M. Mathews $61 00 

J.V.Alexander, 62cents; C. H. Amsden, 

62 cents; Mrs. E. G. Billings, 62 

cents; Mrs. Theodore Bacon, 62 

cents; Mrs. M. Briggs, 62 cents; Mrs. 

J. Caetleman, 62 cents; Mrs. J. G. 

Cutler, 62 cents; Miss Caldwell, 62 

cents; Mrs. M. W. Cooke, 62 cents; 

Mrs. G. G. Clarkson, 62 cents; Mrs. 

D. Deavenport, 62 cents; Mrs. F. W. 


Elwood, 62 cents; Mrs. Dr. Hazeltine, 

" 62 cents; Mrs. J. S. Killip, 62 

cents; Mrs. A. B. Lamberton, 62 

cents; Mrs. F. A. Macomber, 62 cents; 

Dr. M. L. Mallory, 62 cents; Mrs. S. 

Millman, 62 cents ; Geo. S. Riley, 

65 cents; Miss Shelton, 62 cents; Mrs. 

H. R. Selden, 62 cents; Mrs. J. Moreau 

Smith, 62 cents; Mrs. Van Voorhis, 

for Mrs. L, Van Voorhis, Fishers, 

50 cents; Mrs. J. C. Van Epps, 

62 cents; Mrs. W. Wallace, 62 cents, 

by Miss H. Smith $15 41 

Mrs. W. Y. Baker, 62 cents ; Mrs. E. I. 

Clark, 62 cents ; Mrs. J. Castleman, 

62 cents; Miss Gregory, 62 cents ; 

Mrs. W. E. Hoyt, $1; Mrs. R. Johnston, 

$1 ; Mrs. C. D. Miller, Geneva, 

$1 ; Mr. Thomas McBlain, Geneva, 

50 cents; Mis. L. L. R. Pitkin, 3 

subs., $1.86; sale of papers, 25 cents, 

by Treasurer 8 09 



Donations for June. 

E. Darrow & Co., 6 match safes. 

Mrs. Leo Stein, 50 new towels. 

Mrs. Loop, flowers. 

Mrs. Crowell, reading matter. 

Mrs. Oscar Craig, 4 large cans of fruit. 

Miss M. W. Montgomery, reading matter and 

old cotton. 

Bouquets from the First Methodist Church 

Sunday School, June 13th. 

A friend, old cotton. 

Mrs. Landsberg, old cotton. 

Mrs. S. M. Bentley, several copies of Christian 

at Work. 

Cecile Kimball, flowers for little Sarah. 

Chase Brothers, large quantity of reading 

matter. 

Mr. Edward Brewster, 2 door mats. 

Mr. Cottman, handsome plush covered chair 

for parlor. 

Joseph Lovecraf t & Son, 2 loads kindling. 

Mrs. Hungerford, old cotton. 

Mrs. Stull, flowers, strawberries and lettuce, 

for wards. 

Mt. Vemon Union Mission Sabbath School, 

flowers. 

A friend, quantity of Harper's Magazines, 

Observers, and other reading matter. 

For Mrs. Allen's Cot, Children's Pavilion, 10 

volumes of Rollo's Tour in Europe.



Ued. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, June 14th, 

1886, Mary Bryant, aged 17 years. 

At the Rochester City Hospital, June 14th, 

1886, of cancer of neck and spinal cord, William 

Lilley, aged 55 years. 

Famous Doctors. 

The medical profession has one advantage— 

it is one of the necessities ol civilization. The 

very man who pokes fun at the doctors sends 

for a physician the moment he falls ill. Addison 

said that medical men were "like the British 

army in Caesar's time; some stay in chariots, 

and some on foot." But when the genial humorist 

was taken sick, he sent for the best 

doctor in London, and submitted to be bled, or 

cupped, or leached; for in those days every 

disease was ascribed to inflammation, which 

must be subdued by letting the blood flow. 

The medical science of that time merited 

Addison's sly sarcasm, that a nation abounding 

in physicians is always thin of people. 

The medical profession has also another advantage. 

Any man of average ability, good 

character, and steady purpose, may gain a living 

by medicine, though he may fail to win a 

fortune. If, however, he i6 of the stuff out of 

which great surgeons and physicians are made, 

he may become wealthy. 

Sir Astley Cooper, the eminent London surgeon, 

practised five years before his income 

rose to five hundred dollars a year. But from 

that time it went steadily up, until in one 

year it reached one hundred and five thousand 

dollars. His average yearly income, for a long 

time, was seventy-five thousand dollars. Even 

this amount was exceeded by the receipts of 

another London surgeon, Sir Benjamin Brodie. 

Sir Henry Holland limited his professional 

income to twenty-five thousand dollars a year, 

in order to retain leisure for study, recreation 

and travel. But Dr. Chambers gave himself 

so entirely to his practice, that he rushed 

through the streets, driven post-haste, at ten 

miles an hour, and scarcely ever ate one regular 

meal a day. 

He was frequently ill, and his sicknesses reduced 

the amount of his yearly fees to fortyseven 

thousand dollars. Once, when laid aside 

by an injury to his right hand through bloodpoisoning, 

malicious people said that his fingers 

had become crooked from the continual 

habit of taking fees.—Youths' Companion. 

When a storm is coming, don't wait for rain 

before getting under cover, and don't carry 

metal tools when thunder sounds overhead. 

Better leave the hoeing, or the hay, and get in 

safe quarters in time, and don't sit in the barn, 

in a storm. Close the windows of the house; 

let the fire down, and keep out of rooms where 

there is fire. Sit in the middle of the largest 

room you can choose, away from stoves, or 

stove-pipes, pillars, mirrors, iron chairs, registers 

or gas-fixtures—let alone telephones or 

electric lights. In a storm any of these thingsmay 

conduct lightning, and it is just as foolhardy 

to despise these precautions as to be careless 

about loaded guns. 

At night, draw the bed out from the corner 

of the room, as far from the wall and chimney 

as possible. Out of doors, keep away from 

walls, trees, streams or wells, and telegraph 

poles. Seek shelter in an open hollow, or under 

bushes, choosing the valley rather than the 

hill-top or side. 

You don't want to take chances with lightning, 

but taking every caution, keep as free of 

fear as you can, for the chances are in your 

favor. People who take care of themselves 

are not the ones who are injured by lightning. 

The great ship at sea never thinks of the 

harbor when the sun is shining and the waves, 

are at rest; it is only when the storm breaks 

that she discovers her need of a safe shelter. 

So we must all be shown our feebleness, in order 

that we may seek and acknowledge the safe 

' harbor, Jesus.—Margaret S. Tennant. 

Do you feel that you are able to do nobler 

and better work than you are doing, and that 

circumstances compel you to waste your power 

in the apparently unimportant details of common 

daily drudgery? Be of good cheer; "circumstances" 

is often only another name for 

Divine providence. 

If a canoe be connected by a cord with a distant 

ship, one in the canoe may draw himself to 

the ship, if he cannot draw the ship to himself. 

So, as has been said, is it with prayer. If it do 

not bring God to man, it will bring man to 

God. And this is always well for man.— 

W. P. Breed. 

One of the best rules in conversation is never 

to say a thing which any of the company can 

reasonably wish we had left unsaid. 

Hard words are like hailstones in summer,, 

beating down and destroying what they would 

nourish were they melted into drops.


ESSRS. J. & R. LAMB, the Church Decorators 

M and Furnishers of 69 Carmine Street, NEW 

YORK, will send free, on request, to the readers of 

"the REVIKW, their Illustrated Hand Books. These 

embrace Stained and Mosaic Glass, Memorial Windows 

for Churches, Domestic Glass and Interior Decorations, 

Church Metal Work (Memorial Brass Pulpits, 

Lecterns, Altar Crosses and Vases, etc.) Memorial 

Tablets of Bronze, Brass, Carved Wood and Carved 

Stone, Church Furniture and Carved Wood Work, 

Embroideries, Banners, Hangings, Altar Cloths, Vestments, 

&c.. Mosaics, Communion Plate and Alms- 

Basins, Prie-Dieu, Crucifixes of Ivory, Gold,and Silver, 

Bronze and Boxwood, &c., &c. 

fS°" Special designs and photographs of work done 

by the firm, are submitted on application. 








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mail matter.] 








to be sent to Mirs. M. M. Mathews, Corresponding Secretary, 

No. 96 bpring Street. 








Plumbing?, Gas Fitting- and 

Tin Smithing:. 

Great American Hst Air Farnace. 


A Full Line of Toilet Articles and Fancy Goods. 

HASKIN & SMITH, 

20 W. Main St., Powers' Block, 


da & Mineral Waters. Imported & Domestic Cigars 


LADIES' 

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CHEAP! 

BURKE 

FITZ SIMONS 

HONE & CO. 

Are offering Bargains every day in this department. 

Goods placed at the 

LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. 

All of Superior Quality and made for our 

Retail Trade. 

Made from good cambric and handsomely 

trimmed with Hamburg and Real Laces. 

Long ui Short Dresses for Infants 

ALL EXTRA VALUE. 



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colors. Also. 












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Flowers and Vegetables prices °£ S E E D S 

and Plants, and how to get and grow *9 ** fj* *» K» 

them. Printed in English and German. • Price only 10 


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JAMEB YICK, SEEDSMAN, Rochester, N.Y. 



JOBBERS IN 


WRITING, WRAPPING AND PRINTING PAPER, 


CURRAN & GOLERS 


ALL NIGHT, 

DEALER IS 

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DEALERS IN 

MILLINERY GOODS 



CARPETINGS. 



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Velvets, Body ana Tapestry Brussels, Three-ply Ingrains, 








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days of those months. Transfers of money on depos 

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SYLVANUS J. MACY ad Vice-President 


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